Factors Influencing Nascent Entrepreneurship of the Unemployed: The Role of Labor Market Policies

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 18476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Zouhar ◽  
Martin Lukes
2013 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 1350004 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAFAL KIERZENKOWSKI ◽  
ISABELL KOSKE

Despite a general trend of increasing labor income inequality, there have been differences in the timing, intensity and even direction of these changes across OECD countries. These stylized facts have led to numerous studies about the main determinants of labor income inequality and, as a result, a significant revision of the previous consensus about the key drivers. The most researched channels include skill-biased technological change, international trade, immigration, education as well as the role of labor market policies and institutions.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bredgaard ◽  
Jon Lystlund Halkjær

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-98
Author(s):  
Velinka Tomić ◽  

This paper discusses the methods of evaluating active labor market policy. In addition, an important aspect of the analysis, conducted in this paper, concerns the assessment of the relative success of these measures in the case of the Republic of Srpska. The statistical analysis evaluated the success of three chosen projects implemented in the Republic of Srpska. A major problem in evaluating the effectiveness of individual measures is inadequate IT support. The unemployed persons are not monitored for all the characteristics that play a significant role in determining the target groups for particular measures. The measures are primarily intended for young people and categories related to the recent war conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The relative assessment of the success of individual measures has confirmed that these measures are not greatly influenced by raising general employment, but these programs, at least to some extent, alleviate the problem of unemployment and improve the position of the hard-to-employ categories of the unemployed persons.


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 757
Author(s):  
Patricia Suárez Cano ◽  
Matías Mayor Fernández ◽  
Begoña Cueto Iglesias

The article aims to study the role of Public Employment Services (PES) in the Spanish labor market. In order to achieve such an aim, there has been carried out a provincial-level analysis that incorporates several spatial aspects, the decentralization of active labor market policies and the existence of PES dependent on the autonomous communities. Economic theory indicates that the market share of PES is higher in those regions in which the labor market is less dynamic.


2017 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
pp. 1229-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Voßemer ◽  
Michael Gebel ◽  
Kadri Täht ◽  
Marge Unt ◽  
Björn Högberg ◽  
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