Thomas Janoski, The Political Economy of Unemployment: Active Labour Market Policy in West Germany and the United States, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990. xxvi + 351 pp. $34.95; - W.W. Daniel, The Unemployed Flow, Policy Studies Institute, London, 1990. 243 pp. £24.95.

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-125
Author(s):  
Alan Gordon
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Political ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
The Unemployed

scholarly journals The Multi-Tool Nature of Active Labour Market Policy and its Implications for Partisan Politics in Advanced Democracies

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Axel Cronert
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
The Political ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Refined Theory ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Political Spectrum

Active labour market policy (ALMP) has emerged as a major topic of inquiry among comparative scholars in recent decades, alongside other social investments. However, few conclusive results have been produced regarding the political explanations of these policies, and not least the role of partisan politics. To help remedy this problem, this article proposes a new understanding of ALMP as a profoundly versatile set of ‘multi-purpose tools’ that policymakers across the political spectrum can use as a means to very different distributional ends. Specifically, it highlights how ALMP programmes vary in terms of 1) their target groups, 2) their intended labour market outcomes, and 3) their modes of production in politically salient ways. Informed by the new framework and by recent research, the article then develops a refined theory about how governments with different left–right placement, operating under economic and institutional constraints, affect ALMP development in different directions.

Emerging from crisis: Sweden’s active labour market policy and vulnerable groups

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-564
Author(s):  
Marcela Kantová ◽  
Markéta Arltová
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
State Interventions ◽  
The Unemployed

Sweden has adopted an Active Labour Market Policy as a means of transitioning out of the economic crisis created by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The approach is to a significant extent reminiscent of that adopted following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The article examines the effectiveness of active labour market policy in Sweden over the period 2007–2012. By analysing these earlier policy outcomes, the aim is to assess the success of active labour market policy more broadly. The hypothesis that greater labour market flexibility allows the labour market policy to be more efficient is evaluated. With a focus on the labour supply, possible reasons for the reduced efficiency of state interventions are outlined using regression models. Conclusions derived from the models point to the failure of earlier Swedish active labour market policy towards the vulnerable groups of the unemployed, unemployed women and men aged 15–19 years and the long-term unemployed. JEL Codes: J08, J21, J64

Dualising the Swedish model: insiders and outsiders and labour market policy reform in Sweden: an overview

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Bo Davidsson
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Social Insurance System ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Swedish Model ◽  
Welfare Institutions ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Fiscal Austerity

For many decades it seemed that the Swedish model was immune to change. Welfare scholars saw in Sweden a paragon of an equal society based on a generous welfare state that had withstood the pressures of globalisation. While it is true that some welfare institutions are still intact, that is no longer the case in labour market policy. This cannot be explained by fiscal austerity imposed by the EU; rather it was the economic crisis in the early 1990s that first set reforms in motion. This chapter traces labour market reforms in Sweden over the past two decades. The pattern suggested here is one in which labour market outsiders have borne the brunt of reforms. This can be seen in the manner in which labour market flexibility was introduced, the fact that many of the unemployed now stand outside the social insurance system, in the declining value of social assistance benefits and perhaps most strikingly in the radical cuts to spending on active labour market policy.

scholarly journals Policy evaluation via a statistical control: A non-parametric evaluation of the ‘Want2Work’ active labour market policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 635-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Lindley ◽  
Steven Mcintosh ◽  
Jennifer Roberts ◽  
Carolyn Czoski Murray ◽  
Richard Edlin
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Statistical Control ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Non Parametric
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