I work on research on active labor market policies. However, I have found few studies that would address the different external environment impacts on the effectiveness of these policies. I am particularly interested in whether these policies work differently in regions with high and low unemployment rates. Does anyone know about examples of such studies?
Dear Miroslav,
well, the literature shows that the effects are heterogenous, when it comes to the different policy actions. It is very important to ask such questions and compare outcomes of programmes. For example, I was part of a team that evaluated ALMP in the Czech Republic and there were heterogenious impacts of re-trainings, start-up subsidies for unemployed and other ALMP tools. We also observed different impacts of subsidies that were allocated from ERDF in the Czech Republic at the firm level. The truth is usually at the bottom of the glass, and thus, we need to conduct evaluation studies to know more :-).
Without data and analyses, hard to guess ;-)
Best,
Ondřej
Dear Miroslav,
These two papers might help you:
Card, D., Kluve, J., & Weber, A. (2010). Active labour market policy evaluations: A
meta-analysis. The economic journal, 120(548).
Card, D., Kluve, J., i Weber, A. (2017). What works? A meta-analysis of recent active labor market program evaluations. Journal of the European Economic Association.
Hope they will be helpful!
Bests,
Pere A. Taberner
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