TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Boone, Jan
AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
        TI  - Effective Active Labor Market Policies
        PY  - 2004/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1335
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1335
        AB  - We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market
policies (ALMP). In our empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the
time period 1985-1999. We find that labor 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.
        KW  - unemployment
KW  - active labor market programs
KW  - training
KW  - public employment services
KW  - subsidized jobs
        ER  -