Labour market policies on a sub-national level

Labour Market Outcomes : A Cross - National Study

Labour Market Outcomes : A Cross - National Study

Under the educational sorting hypothesis, an environment in which some individuals are constrained from entering university will be characterized by increased pooling at the high school graduation level, as compared to an environment with greater university access. This results because some potential high school drop{outs and university enrollees choose the high school graduate designation in o...

Years of Labour Market Policies in Denmark

Introduction Now and then, the economic political debate in Europe focuses on some countries, which have had more success with their labour market policy than other countries. For a few years, Denmark has been one of the countries in focus because we have been able to show dramatic reductions in the unemployment figures. The public opinion assisted by the government quickly links the positive d...

Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies Evaluations

In this paper we carry out a meta evaluation of the international evaluation literature regarding active labour market policies (ALMPs). Many attempts have been made to estimate the net impact of reintegration measures on the individual job entry chance. So, the question is what conclusions can be drawn from the literature. How big is the net effect of reintegration measures? Our paper differs ...

National labour market policies and international trade : Does policy coordination pay ? ∗

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, a fact widely ignored in the academic literature. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an international duopoly model with unionised labour markets. We document both positive and negative spill-over effects and discuss the be...