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Market Programmes (market + programme)
Kinds of Market Programmes Selected AbstractsActive Labour Market Programmes, Job Search and Job Finding in DenmarkLABOUR, Issue 3 2010Anna Amilon This paper investigates whether the probability to search for a job and search intensity increase as the start of an Active Labour Market Programme (ALMP) approaches. Further, it investigates whether job search is correlated with job finding. Although previous studies have shown that the chance of job finding increases as the start of an ALMP approaches, it remains an open question what causes this ,threat effect'. Results show that job search increases as programme start approaches and that there is a positive correlation between job search and job finding. The threat effect can therefore at least partly be attributed to increased job search. [source] Has the EU's Single Market Programme Fostered Competition?OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS, Issue 4 2007Testing for a Decrease in Mark-up Ratios in EU Industries Abstract We use a panel approach, covering 10 EU Member States over the period 1981,99, for each of three major industry groups (manufacturing, construction and services) and 18 more detailed industries to test whether the EU's Single Market Programme has led to a reduction in firms' mark-ups over marginal costs. We address explicitly the uncertainty with respect to the timing of the changeover and allow for a possibly continuous regime shift in a smooth transition analysis. Where regime shifts can be found, the velocity of transition is extremely high, making the linear model a justifiable approximation. We also test for discrete structural breaks in the time window from 1986 to 1996, taking up endogeneity concerns in a generalized method of moments framework. Mark-up reductions are found for aggregate manufacturing (although it is also suggested that mark-ups increased in some manufacturing industries in the precompletion period at the end of the 1980s) and also for construction. In contrast, mark-ups have gone up in most service industries since the early 1990s, which confirms the weak state of the Single Market for services and suggests that anti-competitive defence strategies have emerged in EU service industries. [source] Active Labour Market Programmes, Job Search and Job Finding in DenmarkLABOUR, Issue 3 2010Anna Amilon This paper investigates whether the probability to search for a job and search intensity increase as the start of an Active Labour Market Programme (ALMP) approaches. Further, it investigates whether job search is correlated with job finding. Although previous studies have shown that the chance of job finding increases as the start of an ALMP approaches, it remains an open question what causes this ,threat effect'. Results show that job search increases as programme start approaches and that there is a positive correlation between job search and job finding. The threat effect can therefore at least partly be attributed to increased job search. [source] Evaluation Methods for Non-Experimental DataFISCAL STUDIES, Issue 4 2000Richard Blundell Abstract This paper presents a review of non-experimental methods for the evaluation of social programmes. We consider matching and selection methods and analyse each for cross-section, repeated cross-section and longitudinal data. The methods are assessed drawing on evidence from labour market programmes in the UK and in the US. [source] Economic Policy and Social Policy: Policy-linkages in an Era of GlobalisationINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE, Issue 1 2000Dong-Myeon Shin This article argues that changes in the role of the state in economic affairs will affect the process of social policy. Growing economic integration caused by globalisation now places a greater constraint upon the discretion of the nation state, bringing about a transformation into a more competitive state. States are increasingly having to compete against each other in order to promote competitiveness and attract foreign direct investment (FDI) from international capital markets. This competition influences in turn the social policy formation requiring the redesigning of social policy. Thus, welfare states may need to reform their social policy towards a "business-friendly social policy". The analysis of social policy inputs and outputs presented here suggests that there are common trends in most welfare states towards: a market-conforming policy on business taxation, a reduction of the share of employer's contributions in social protection revenues, more limited income security programmes, an increased allocation of resources for active labour market programmes and less state intervention in the labour market. All these reforming trends in social policy can be understood as a response of welfare states to the evolving needs of business caused by structural change, notably globalisation. [source] Choosing the Best Training Programme: Is there a Case for Statistical Treatment Rules?,OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS, Issue 2 2010Jonas Staghøj Abstract When treatment effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) are heterogeneous in an observable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into different programmes becomes particularly important. In this article, we present a statistical model that can be used to allocate unemployed into different ALMPs. The model presented is a duration model that uses the timing-of-events framework to identify causal effects. We compare different assignment rules, and the results suggest that a significant reduction in the average duration of unemployment may result if a statistical treatment rule is introduced. [source] Eine wirkungsorientierte aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz: Eine Vision , zwei RealitätenPERSPEKTIVEN DER WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITIK, Issue 2 2002Michael Lechner The paper develops a scenario of an interaction between actual governmental active labour market programmes and econometric policy evaluations. It argues that this scenario could and indeed should be implemented. The paper shows also that realities in Switzerland and Germany are very different from this ideal situation. The good news is that both countries appear to move , albeit slowly , towards that vision. It is however apparent that currently Germany is considerably lagging behind. [source] Active labour market policy in East GermanyTHE ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION, Issue 4 2009Waiting for the economy to take off Matching estimation; causal effects; programme evaluation; panel data Abstract We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative individual database derived from administrative data sources. Using matching methods, we find that over a horizon of 2.5 years after the start of the programmes, they fail to increase the employment chances of their participants in the regular labour market. However, the programmes may have other effects for their participants that may be considered important in the especially difficult situation experienced in the East German labour market. [source] | ||||||||||