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Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies

Empirical Evidence for Poland During Transition

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Patrick A. Puhani

    1. Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany

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Part of the book series: ZEW Economic Studies (ZEW, volume 5)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Introduction

    • Patrick A. Puhani
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Polish Labour Market in Transition

    • Patrick A. Puhani
    Pages 7-27

  4. Macroeconometric ALMP Evaluation by Way of Augmented Matching Functions

    • Patrick A. Puhani
    Pages 28-105

  5. Microeconometric ALMP Evaluation: Methodological Issues and Previous Work

    • Patrick A. Puhani
    Pages 106-143

  6. Microeconometric ALMP Evaluation: Empirical Analysis for Poland

    • Patrick A. Puhani
    Pages 144-216

  7. Conclusions

    • Patrick A. Puhani
    Pages 217-220

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 221-239
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About this book

Most governments in today's market economies spend significant sums of money on labour market programmes. The declared aims of these programmes are to increase the re-employment chances of the unemployed. This book investigates which active labour market programmes in Poland are value for money and which are not. To this end, modern statistical methods are applied to both macro- and microeconomic data. It is shown that training programmes increase, whereas job subsidies and public works decrease the re-employment opportunities of the unemployed. In general, all active labour market policy effects are larger in absolute size for men than for women. By surveying previous studies in the field and outlining the major statistical approaches that are employed in the evaluation literature, the book can be of help to any student interested in programme evaluation irrespective of the paticular programme or country concerned.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany

    Patrick A. Puhani

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies

  • Book Subtitle: Empirical Evidence for Poland During Transition

  • Authors: Patrick A. Puhani

  • Series Title: ZEW Economic Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58685-9

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1234-3Published: 29 October 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-58685-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1615-6781

  • Series E-ISSN: 1867-2027

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 239

  • Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Labor Economics, Political Science, Econometrics

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