Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unemployed will find jobs or that the underemployed will increase their productivity and earnings. ALMPs include job search assistance, training and retraining, and job creation programs (public works, micro-enterprise development, and wage subsidies). With...
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Impact evaluation : Techniques for evaluating active labor market programs
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active labor market
Citation
Dar,Amit; Whitehead, Tim [editor].
Impact evaluation : Techniques for evaluating active labor market programs (English). World Bank Employment Policy Primer ; no. 2 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/943991468763524282