Connecting People With Jobs Impact Evaluation Of Training And Wage Subsidies For The Unemployed In Greece

This report uses rich administrative data from different registers in Greece to evaluate the impact of two types of active labour market policies (ALMPs): wage subsidies and training for unemployed people.

This report on Lithuania is the tenth country study published in a series of reports looking into how policies connect people with jobs. This report is produced in the framework of a project of the OECD with the European Commission which aims to raise the quality of the data collected and their use in the evaluation of the effectiveness of active labour market policies (ALMPs).

The study is the first evaluation of a major ongoing national program that uses the classical experimental design of random assignment, measuring "what would have happened" by comparing people who entered Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs with those who didn't. After background information on JTPA, chapters look at benefit-cost analyses; enrollment; program impacts on target groups; impacts on the earnings of subgroups; and policy implications of the findings. Distributed by University Press of America. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This report examines the use of activation policies in Slovenia to improve labour market outcomes for long-term unemployed people, low-skilled workers, older workers, and workers who were made or are at risk of becoming displaced.

Working paper, evaluation of a wages subsidy scheme to encourage employment creation and training opportunities for on the job training of young workers in Australia - examines management attitudes to the scheme and its success in increasing youth employment by size of enterprise and industry; includes research methodology. Bibliography, questionnaire, statistical tables.

The 2019 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook presents new evidence on changes in job stability, underemployment and the share of well-paid jobs, and discusses the policy implications of these changes with respect to how technology, globalisation, population ageing, and other megatrends are transforming the labour market in OECD countries.