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Title: Effective Active Labour Market Policies

Author(s): Jan Boone and Jan C. van Ours

Publication Date: October 2004

Keyword(s): active labour market programmes, public employment services, subsidized jobs, training and unemployment

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: 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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Boone, J and van Ours, J. 2004. 'Effective Active Labour Market Policies'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4707