Discussion paper

DP4707 Effective Active Labour Market Policies

Jan C. van Ours Jan Boone

23 Oct 2004

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labour market policies (ALMP). In our empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-99. We find that labour market training is the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are not effective at all. Our theory considers ALMP in the context of a search-matching model.

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Citation

van Ours, J and J Boone (2004), ‘DP4707 Effective Active Labour Market Policies‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4707. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp4707