Active Labour Market Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilisation
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چکیده
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 allocate funds flexibly between a range of programs. John Quiggin is an ARC Senior Fellow in the School of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the Australian National University 1 I thank Nancy Wallace and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and criticism. This research was supported by an Australian Research Council Senior Fellowship. 52 THE DRAWING BOARD
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