Methods to Evaluate Active Labour Market Programmes Used by Governments to Upgrade the Capability of the Labour Force
It is well accepted that a highly educated and well trained labour force is a precondition for sustained economic growth and development. This has become even more apparent in the last thirty years, as the joint impact of globalisation and skill biased technological change has necessitated countries to focus on the skills and expertise of their labour force in order to remain competitive. Governments have responded to this challenge by adapting their formal education systems and by the provision of active labour market programmes for the unemployed or to upskill workers. However, while there has been much resource expended on these programmes there are many countries where there is no systematic evaluation of their impact upon participants in these programmes. This paper helps address this issue by discussing the non-experimental approaches that may be used to evaluate active labour market programmes. This is achieved by outlining the evaluation problem and selection bias, and the general approaches to solving these. Following this the range of methods that can be used to evaluate the impact of a programme are analysed, including parametric and non-parametric approaches. The paper concludes with a discussion as to how to choose the optimal method for evaluation.
Active Labour Market Policy Economic Evaluation Microeconometrics
Geoff PERRY
Business School,Auckland University of Technology,New Zealand
国际会议
南京
英文
178-194
2008-06-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）