Active Labour Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Card, David; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Mannheim
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02387.x
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: F452-F477
• 关键词: training-programs; SYSTEM; BIAS

摘要

This article presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labour market policies. We categorise 199 programme impacts from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. Job search assistance programmes yield relatively favourable programme impacts, whereas public sector employment programmes are less effective. Training programmes are associated with positive medium-term impacts, although in the short term they often appear ineffective. We also find that the outcome variable used to measure programme impact matters, but neither the publication status of a study nor the use of a randomised design is related to the sign or significance of the programme estimate.