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Successes and Failures of
Labor Market Policy in Europe
Jochen Kluve(RWI Essen, Germany)
Colombia Employment and Development Conference
Bogotá, November 14, 2008
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Introduction
Majority of countries worldwide has implemented certain labor
market policies: unemployment benefits, training for theunemployed, etc
While labor markets are heterogeneous by country, these policies
are similar, and their general objective is the same: increase
employment, reduce unemployment
Important for countries to learn from each other’s experience
Europe: many different countries within relatively small space,
many experiences with different labor policies
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Today„s presentation
European labor markets: Unemployment and policy spending
Passive and Active Labor Market Policy
Knowledge on ALMP effectiveness
Types of countries
Systematizing the evidence: Meta-analysis
Failures and successes
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Unemployment in Europe
Source: Eurostat
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Youth unemployment in Europe
Source: Eurostat
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I r e l a n d I t a l y
N e t h e
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Long-term unemployment in Europe
Source: Eurostat
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N e t h e
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European labor markets: overview
Unemployment in 2005:
EU-15: 8.0% 14 Mio., of which 4.7 Mio. LTU
EU-27: 8.9% 19.3 Mio., of which 7.9 Mio. LTU
Spending (2003):
EU-15: 65 Bio. Euros on active labor market policy = .75% of GDP
25 Bio. Euros on training programs
126 Bio. Euros on passive labor market policy
(Eurostat)
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“Passive” labor market policy
“Out-of-work income maintenance and support”, i.e.unemployment benefits and unemployment assistance
Early retirement schemes
Administration of the Public Employment Services (PES)
”Administering unemployment”
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EU spending by program type
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0,25
0,3
Total LMP
services
Training Job rotation
and job
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Employment
incentives
Integration of
the disabled
Direct job
creation
Start-up
incentives
Source: Eurostat
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Knowledge on ALMP effectiveness
For a particular country:
Labor market policy
Types of Active Labor Market Programs
Design of the unemployment insurance system (passive support)
Interaction of the active and passive systems (sanctions, “rights
and duties”)
Evaluation practice
Data collection
Academic and government-sponsored research
Policy interest in learning about program effectiveness
[Countries are heterogeneous systematize information]
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Northern
urope
Western
urope
Southern urope
astern
urope
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“Northern Europe”
Labor market policy Comprehensive use of Active Labor
Market Programs (Sweden: since the 1970s)
Generous unemployment insurance
system (Denmark: 90% replacement rate)
Program participation ultimatelycompulsory for the LTU
Evaluation practice
Comprehensive data collection (administrative)
Multitude of academic evaluation studies Changes in policy? To some extent
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“Western Europe”
Labor market policy Less comprehensive use of
Active Labor Market Programs,
but still substantial spending
Fairly generous unemployment insurance system
Many countries (e.g. Germany, Netherlands, UK) have introducedsanction elements over the last decade
Evaluation practice
Less established, mostly triggered by EU, in some countries
rapidly evolving (Germany) Increasing number of academic evaluation studies
Changes in policy? Unclear
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“Southern Europe”
Labor market policy Little use of Active Labor Market Programs, often regionally
focused
Less generous unemployment insurance system
Evaluation practice Program evaluation rather uncommon
Some academic evaluation studies exist
Little is known on ALMP effectiveness
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“Eastern Europe”
Labor market policy After breakdown of Communist regimes, systems of active and
passive support built from scratch, often copying Western systems
Little use of Active Labor Market Programs in most countries, some
exceptions are Romania and Poland (in the 1990s)
Unemployment insurancesystem offers basic support
Evaluation practice
Program evaluation rather uncommon Some academic evaluation studies exist
Little is known on ALMP effectiveness
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Spending on ALMP in Europe (%GDP)
00,2
0,40,6
0,81
1,21,4
1,61,8
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a r k
G e r m
a n y
N e t h e
r l a n d s
S p a i n I t a
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C z e c
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b l i c
H u n g a r
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2004
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How to systematize the evidence
Meta-Analysis: Collect evaluations of Active Labor Market
Programs from all over Europe (following certain requirements) 137 studies
For each study: Does the evaluation find a positive, negative, or
zero effect of the program (on employment)?
[75 +, 33 Ø, 29 –]
Then analyze if there is a systematic pattern by program type:
1. Training (70)
2. Private sector incentive programs (23)
3. Public sector job creation (26)
4. Services and Sanctions (21)
5. Youth programs (35)
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Other factors that may influence effectiveness
For each country:
Labor market institutions
Gross replacement rate
Regulation on dismissal protection
Regulation on fixed-term contracts
Regulation on temporary work (OECD indexes)
Economic context
Unemployment rate
ALMP expenditure as % of GDP
GDP growth
Study design (method, sample size)
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Results: ALMP effectiveness in Europe
Picture emerging from analysis surprisingly clear-cut:
Little systematic relation between program effectiveness and
contextual factors
Exception: restrictive dismissal regulations
Instead: the program type matters
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Failures?
Direct job creation in the public sector very rarely has a positive
effect on participants’ employment probability. Quite the opposite:effects are frequently negative.
Training programs have mixed effects, but generally tend
towards positive impacts (see “successes” next slide), though
maybe not as clearly / strongly as one might have hoped for.
Young people seem to be particularly hard to assist. Indeed,
most youth programs fail. Perhaps ALMP is not the right type of
policy for this group Preventive measures.
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Successes?
Training programs are modestly effective on average. There is
some indication that impacts materialize in the longer run(human capital accumulation).
Private sector incentive schemes such as wage subsidies and
start-up grants generally show positive effects.
Caveat: Not much is known about substitution or displacement
effects and deadweight loss.
“Services and Sanctions” seem particularly successful:
Apparently many unemployed can be helped with basic job
search assistance measures. Also, sanction elements mobilize
the unemployed. These measures are also likely cost-effective.