scholarly journals The return to labor market mobility: An evaluation of relocation assistance for the unemployed

2017 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 136-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Caliendo ◽  
Steffen Künn ◽  
Robert Mahlstedt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Relocation Assistance ◽  
The Unemployed

scholarly journals The DEA Method and its Application Possibilities for Measuring Efficiency in the Public Sector—The Case of Local Public Employment Services

Economies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Ewa Cichowicz ◽  
Ewa Rollnik-Sadowska ◽  
Monika Dędys ◽  
Maria Ekes
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Measuring Efficiency ◽  
Dea Method ◽  
The Unemployed

Public Employment Services (PES) are identified as important institutions in the process of improving the match between supply and demand in the labor market, which, despite their importance, still do not achieve the desired efficiency. The indicated problem is partly due to the lack of appropriate evaluation methods for the applied labor market policy instruments. This paper aims to verify the possibility of using the two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method in measuring the efficiency of public sector entities. The authors focused on 39 PES operating in Mazovia province, Poland in 2019. In the first stage, the model of technical efficiency of local PES included six variables (four inputs and two outputs). Only seven PES obtained full efficiency. The inefficiency of analyzed PES varied from about 1% to 80%. In the second stage, the attention focuses on the relationship between true unknown efficiency and its determinants (five environmental variables, both demand and supply oriented). Then, the regression coefficients and confidence intervals showed that three out of five variables influence the efficiency results, the share of the long-term unemployed, the share of the unemployed under 30, and the share of the unemployed over 50 in the total number of unemployed.

LABOR MARKET RESEARCH IN DNIPROPETROVSK REGION

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Aloshyna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Market Development ◽  
General Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Statistical Report ◽  
The Unemployed

The main tendencies and peculiarities of the labor market development of Dnipropetrovsk region are considered in the article. There were collected and analyzed the materials of Ukrainian statistical report and Dnipropetrovsk region reports of Statistics Department. There were analyzed general situation of the labor market in Ukraine and regions. The article includes indicators of the labor force of Ukraine in terms of regions over the past five years, identifies the place of the labor market of Dnipropetrovsk region in the overall structure of the labor market of Ukraine. A comprehensive analysis of the labor force indicators of the Dnipropetrovsk region by the number of employed persons, the gender structure of the employed population and the dynamics of the relevant indicators. The structural changes in the composition of the unemployed population of the region by territorial and sexual affiliation are determined, as well as the changes in the sex and age structure of the unemployed population over the past five years. The conducted research made it possible to assess the structural changes in the region's labor force, which are accompanied by a reduction in the labor force, a decrease in the labor force, and an increase in the unemployed population.

scholarly journals Inclusion and Integration of the Disabled into the Labor Market Against the Background of the New Regulations in Germany

Equilibrium ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-101
Author(s):  
Lilianna Jodkowska
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Social Code ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
New Criteria

The aim of the article is to present new regulations introduced by the Third Book of the Social Code in Germany that concern a reform of the labor market's active instruments gathered under the name "Instumentenreform".  One of the main objectives of the reform is to improve the quality of programs and projects that activate the unemployed, but also to make efforts to include in the labor market groups that have not been activated in such a way so far. One of such groups are the disabled trained and employed in Invalids' Cooperatives.  One of the further, and at the same time new, criteria for all organizations and institutions receiving and applying for funds to realize programs of the labor market and vocational trainings is the introduction and certification of the quality management system. The aim of the paper is to compare the activity of Invalids' Cooperatives in Poland and Germany. This aim will be carried out by analyzing the regulations and as far as possible the data available (the regulations became effective in two stages: in April 2012, and since 01.01.2013 onwards).  The findings of the article have been collected in the form of a description of the situation and forecast for 2013.

scholarly journals Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelie Constant ◽  
Martin Kahanec ◽  
Ulf Rinne ◽  
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Job Search ◽  
The Unemployed

Health promotion and prevention among the unemployed: a systematic review

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1078-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfons Hollederer
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Controlled Study ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Unemployment And Health ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Over Time

Abstract The interactions between unemployment and health create a need for specific interventions for health promotion and prevention. This overview provides information on how health promotion for the unemployed has been approached with an analysis of controlled intervention studies between 1996 and 2016. The literature search consulted 11 international databases in medicine, social sciences and psychology. A total of 30 health interventions for the unemployed were identified, with 43 articles that included the effects of intervention. A controlled-study design was used in 14 studies. The health promotion measures were generally based on individual counselling, case management, training or group services. The overview demonstrates the breadth of variation in target groups and types of measures. Their result indicators for health and integration into the labor market vary substantially, as do the employment promotion effects. There is evidence of improved health and labor market integration for established approaches like the JOBS Program and JobFit. Effects are rather moderate or low in magnitude and the effect mechanisms often remain unclear. Effects weaken over time. While success is more common in the areas of health, physical activity, nutrition and stress relief, there was no impact on smoking behavior. A significant evolution can be observed in the quality and quantity of health promotion for the unemployed over time. There is a need for further research on the effectiveness and sustainability of interventions. Intervention strategies should be developed that take account of the diversity of the unemployed and their different needs.

scholarly journals Employers and the Implementation of Active Labor Market Policies

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bredgaard ◽  
Jon Lystlund Halkjær
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Wage Subsidy ◽  
Subsidy Scheme ◽  
Labor Market Policies ◽  
Active Labor ◽  
Active Labor Market Policies ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Active Labor Market

Active labor market policies (ALMPs) are an important instrument for governments in dealing with the new challenges of globalization, flexibilization, and individualization of labor markets. Politics and research has focused on the supply-side of the labor market, that is, regulating the rights and obligations of the target groups of ALMPs (mainly unemployed and inactive persons). The role and behavior of employers is under-researched and under-theorized in the vast literature on ALMPs and industrial relations. In this article, we analyze ALMPs from the employers’ perspective by examining the determinants of firms’ participation in providing wage subsidy jobs for the unemployed. First, we examine the historical background to the introduction and development of wage subsidy schemes as an important ALMP instrument in Denmark. Second, we derive theoretical arguments and hypotheses about employers’ participation in ALMPs from selected theories. Third, we use data from a survey of Danish firms conducted in 2013 to characterize the firms that are engaged in implementing wage subsidy jobs and hypotheses are tested using a binary logistical regression to establish why firms voluntarily engage in reintegrating unemployed back into the labor market. We find that the firms which are most likely to participate in the wage subsidy scheme are characterized by many unskilled workers, a higher coverage of collective agreements, a deteriorating economic situation, a Danish ownership structure, and are especially found in the public sector. This shows that the preference formation of firms is more complex than scholars often assume.

scholarly journals The determination of disparity between supply and demand in services market

2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (161) ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Perica Macura
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
General Character ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Gray Market ◽  
The Unemployed

Respecting the principles of analytics, systematization and comprehensiveness, the paper deals with the frames of disparity between supply and demand in services market. The basic reasons for disparity are systematically divided into five groups: (1) reasons for problems in the area of information on supply and demand, (2) reasons for problems in the area of parallel functioning of the gray market, (3) reasons for problems in the area of psychological conditions and perceptions of consumers, (4) reasons for problems in the area of social and economic situation, (5) reasons in the area of institutional functioning. These groups contain reasons of the general character and reasons in individual areas and flows. The analysis of disparity has been conducted via relevant relations of demand and supply that exist in services market, as follows: (1) the relation of supply of services provided by companies towards adequate forms of demand (other companies, institutions, population), (2) the relation of institutions' supply of services toward adequate forms of demand (all companies, population) and (3) the relation of unofficial supply of services toward adequate demand (population). Within basic prerequisites for the solution to disparity of demand and supply in the service sector, we have especially emphasized and analyzed personnel potential. We have analyzed elements and problems of the labor market, available personnel potential (personnel potential of the employed and the unemployed), as well as latent personnel potential.

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