The Politics of Labour Market Activation: Employability, Exclusion and Active Citizenship

Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Interventions

This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation. We develop a structural dynamic model of labour supply which incorporates detailed institutional features of these policies and allows for selection on observables and unobservables. We estimate t...

Active Labour Market Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilisation

This paper considers the feasibility of a flexible system of active labour market policy which would adjust to the changing phases of the business cycle, and would dispense with the necessity to reinvent systems from scratch in every phase of every cycle. The proposed system would have an expenditure allocation which varied with the levels of short-term and long-term unemployment, and would all...

Employability and work ability: returning to the labour market after long-term absence.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyse how people who return to the labour market after long-term sickness absenteeism and subsequent job loss differ in employability, work ability, health, educational level, age, and gender, compared to those who do not. PARTICIPANTS The cohort consisted of 191 individuals, 20 men and 171 women, whose employment was terminated because they had not be...

The Effects Of Afghan Immigrants On The Iranian Labour Market

Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies Evaluations

In this paper we carry out a meta evaluation of the international evaluation literature regarding active labour market policies (ALMPs). Many attempts have been made to estimate the net impact of reintegration measures on the individual job entry chance. So, the question is what conclusions can be drawn from the literature. How big is the net effect of reintegration measures? Our paper differs ...