Active labour-market policies: a case of evidence-based policy-making?

Robinson, Peter

doi:10.1093/oxrep/16.1.13

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“…The renewed interest in ALMPs in the 1990s – exemplified by the British New Deal, the Welfare‐to‐Work reforms signed under the Clinton administration, and similar efforts undertaken by other governments (see Robinson, ; Bonoli, ) – has led to a large number of microeconometric program evaluations that have been published in scientific journals. These evaluation studies can be informative for the design of future policy, as they can tell whether a previous intervention had been successful in improving the labor market outcomes of its participants.…”

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The Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies: A Meta‐analysis

Vooren

Haelermans

Groot

et al. 2018

Journal of Economic Surveys

127

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Abstract. This paper provides a meta-analysis of microeconometric evaluation studies on the effectiveness of active labor market policies. The analysis is built upon a systematically assembled data set of causal impact estimates from 57 experimental and quasi-experimental studies, providing 654 estimates published between January 1990 and December 2017. We distinguish between the short and longer term impacts in our analysis; at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months after program start. After correcting for publication bias and country-specific macroeconomic characteristics, subsidized labor and public employment programs have negative short-term impacts, which gradually turn positive in the longer run. Schemes with enhanced services including job-search assistance and training programs do not have these negative short-term effects, and stay positive from 6 until 36 months after program start.

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The Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies: A Meta‐analysis

Vooren

Haelermans

Groot

et al. 2018

Journal of Economic Surveys

127

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“…The growth in ALMP expenditure has been less spectacular and consistent than the discourse suggests (Martin 1998;Robinson 2000). Table 1 : 1970: and 1980: -Janoski (19941985, 1990and 1995-OECD (2000.…”

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“…The growth in ALMP expenditure has been less spectacular and consistent than the discourse suggests (Martin 1998; Robinson 2000). Table 1 shows the significance of active labour market policies as measured by spending on active measures as a share of GDP (gross domestic product).…”

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Welfare regimes and the welfare mix

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Barrientos

2004

European J Political Res

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Abstract. We present a different approach to appraising welfare regimes, stressing different dimensions, variables and techniques to those used by Esping‐Andersen in his path‐breaking work entitled The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. First, instead of focusing on social rights, we construct an alternative path to identifying welfare regimes starting from the welfare mix. Second, we incorporate active labour market policies (ALMP) as a key variable of the welfare mix. Third, we use hierarchical and k‐means cluster analysis to identify welfare regimes in the data. Fourth, we compare regimes over time. Nevertheless, despite these different approaches, we conclude, like Esping‐Andersen, that there are three clusters or worlds of welfare capitalism. We also find that the clustering of welfare regimes was sharper in the mid‐1990s as compared to the mid‐1980s, but that comparing welfare regimes in the 1980s with the 1990s indicates strong path‐dependence. Faced with high and persistent levels of unemployment in the 1990s, OECD countries have adopted policies, including ALMP, which reinforce their welfare mix.

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“…Además, cuando la persona contratada cuenta que hasta 2001 los contratos a tiempo parcial formaban una categoría única, independientemente de su carácter indefinido o temporal, mientras que a partir de 2002 se incluyen en cada tipo de contrato. 17 Las evaluaciones de este tipo de programas encuentran evidencia de elevado efectos peso muerto y sustitución (para una revisión véase Kluve, 2006) que algunos autores han situado entre un 70 y un 95% (OECD, 1993;Robinson, 2000). es una mujer, las bonificaciones se elevan en diez puntos porcentuales.…”

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Active labour-market policies: a case of evidence-based policy-making?

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The Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies: A Meta‐analysis

The Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies: A Meta‐analysis

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