Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies: Empirical Evidence for Poland During Transition

ISBN-13: 9783790812343 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 239 str.

Patrick A. Puhani; P. a. Puhani

Opis

Investigates the effectiveness of active labour market programmes through the example of Poland. This study applies statistical methods to economic data, to show that training programmes increase, whereas job subsidies and public works decrease chances of finding work for the unemployed.

Spis treści

Introduction.- The Polish Labour Market in Transition: General Macroeconomic Developments; Employment and Unemployment Developments; Unemployment in the Regional Context; Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) in Poland.- Macroeconometric ALMP Evaluation by Way of Augmented Matching Functions: Economic Theory: The Matching Function Approach; Literature Survey of Studies on the Matching Function; Econometric Issues; Data and Variables; Estimation Results for Poland; Conclusions from the Macroeconometric Analysis.- Microeconometric ALMP Evaluation: Methodological Issues and Previous Work: The Sample Selection Problem and the Theoretical Case for an Experiment; What Can We Do with Non-Experimental Data?; The Statistical Matching Approach to the Selection Problem in Non-Experimental Studies; Evaluation of ALMPs by Way of Duration Models; Other Methods to Identify Causal Effects; Literature Survey of Empirical Studies on Transition Economies.- Microeconometric ALMP Evaluation: Empirical Analysis for Poland: Analysis for Poland: Data; Empirical Evaluation of ALMPs by Way of the Statistical Matching Approach, Empirical Evaluation of ALMPs by Way of Duration Models; Conclusions from the Microeconometric Analysis.- Conclusions.