Hämäläinen, Kari (1999) The employment and unemployment effects of Finnish active labour market programmes. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

The persistence of high unemployment has placed increasing stress on the role of
active labour market policies. They have been seen as the main policy tool in moving individuals
from income support to employment. This thesis attempts to evaluate the effectiveness
of active labour market policy in fulfilling the difficult task given to it. This is
done by empirically exploring the impact of active labour market programmes on the
overall level of open unemployment, participants' repeat unemployment incidence and
their subsequent employment record. By this means, the thesis examines the achievement
of both macroeconomic and individual goals given to active labour market policy.
The main finding running through all chapters, and consequently through different estimation
methods, samples and aggregation levels, is that active labour market policy improves
the employment performance of the economy but it can help only so far as it
goes. The beneficial effect remains far too limited to bring down the current high levels
of unemployment or to wipe out the gap in labour market possibilities prevailing between
advantaged and disadvantaged individuals. This is not to say that active labour
market policy would not be useful in conjunction with other policies affecting unemployment,
but without any support its effects will remain modest.

Item Type:	Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Labor market -- Finland, Manpower policy -- Finland, Unemployment -- Finland, Employment (Economic theory)
Official Date:	April 1999
Dates:	Date Event April 1999 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Economics
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Knight, Ben; Stewart, Mark
Sponsors:	Yrjö Jahnssonin säätiö [Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation] ; Väinö Tannerin Säätiö [Väinö Tanner Foundation]
Extent:	[7], 212 leaves
Language:	eng

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