An Active Labour Market Policy Evaluation: the Puesto a Puesto Programme
Author(s):
Conference:
ECER 2012
Format:
Paper

Session Information

23 SES 05 B, Labour Market and Adult Learning

Parallel Paper Session

Time:
2012-09-19
11:00-12:30
Room:
FFL - Aula 15
Chair:
Christian Maroy

Contribution

The greatest problem of the world-wide society in the recent decades, has been the increasing of labor inactivity, this carries serious economic consequences not to mention the fact that the social problems of exclusion for certain groups of population. Due to the high rates of unemployment, the European Union has started the European Strategy of the Employment in the decade of the 90 in Amsterdam's Agreement, which tries a coordination of the employment policies of the member states in order that an increase of his efficiency. So all countries have polices to improve the labour market out comes of the unemploy like training, re-training, job search assistance, relocation services or subsidized private or public employment (Kahn, 2012). But the objectives fixed up to 2010 were too ambitious and difficult to reach, for that reason the new horizon European Strategy 2020 raised with greater humility, claims the establishment of a new social economy of sustainable market based on the innovation and the effective use of resources, besides new ways of affecting on the labor market across policies and necessary measures in order that the market is more inclusive with the vulnerable ones (Fresno y Tsolakis, 2010).

In fact, a lot of actions are carried out from national, autonomic to local level, under the frame of the active policies of the work market. Within these actions and more in concrete within the selective measures or measures of positive action, we focus on the Program Puesto a Puesto of the Servicio Municipal of Employment of the Town hall of A Coruña (Galicia / Spain), which principal aim is creating a counter frame in the process of search of employment with plaintiffs who meet special difficulties.

As far as we are concerned from an overview of studies, there have been some research on the impact of Active Labour Market Policies in economies fields, Durán (2004),Lechner, Miquel and Wunsch (2007), Arellano (2010),  but in education there is not an abundant number. Although some progress has been made on the key question of how participation in an active labour market programme affects the labour market outcomes of the participants themselves (Card, Kluve and Weber, 2010)

Method

Two kinds of evaluation are made in this investigation. The first is identify what is the satisfaction of the users who have carried out the formative actions of the programme. The second approach is based on an analysis with propensity score matching (a popular approach to estimate casual treatment effects) which provide estimates of the effects of Puesto a Puesto programme with empirical evidence. We estimated effects for a particular programme called Puesto a Puesto designed on a specific group of participants: - Unemployed workers who receive unemployment benefit (at least the 60% of the treatment group) - Long-term unemployed workers - Women who want to work - Diseable workers Different instruments of measure has been elaborated, both are semistructured questionnaire that pleaded for the methodologic complementariness since information gathers so much of qualitative as quantitative character. This instrument will have to be trustworthy and valid to reach the aims of the work.

Expected Outcomes

With the data colleted by propensity score matching we want to know the short-term impact estimate measuring the effect of treatment and control group outcomes one year after the completion of the programme. These estimates will allow us to compare the effects between the two groups. One of them (the treatment group) had all the advantage to been in the programme, like training courses, guidelines, … and the other groups didn’t have this vantages. Based on this empirical evidence we can determine de effectiveness of the programme being carried out under the active labour market policies.

References

Arellano, F.A. (2010). Do training programmes get the unemployed back to work? A look at the Spanish experience. Revista de Economía Aplicada, 53 (18), 39-65. Card, D., Kluve, J. & Weber, A. (2010). Active Labour Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta- Analysis. The Economic Journal, 120, F452- F477. Fresno, J.M. Y Tsolakis, A. (2010). Cohesión social e inclusión social en la Estrategia Unión Europea 2020.Documentación Social. Revista de estudios sociales y sociología aplicada, 157,31-46. Kahn, L.M. (2012). Labour market policy: a comparative view on the costs and benefits of labour market flexibility. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 31, 94-110 Lechner, M. Miquel, R. and Wunsch, C. (2007). The curse and blessing of training the unemployed in a changing economy: the case of East Germany after unification. German Economic Review, 8, 468-509.

Author Information

Nuria Rebollo Quintela (presenting / submitting)
Universidad de A Coruña
Filosofía y MIDE
A Coruña
Universidad de A Coruña, Spain

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