Labor market policy effects for women in Europe

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and employment subsidies. The results are remarkably uniform across studies. We relate the results to the relevant level of female labor force participation.

Introduction: During the severe economic crisis in Sweden during the 1990’s a great deal of reductions in the public sector took place and the educational sector was no exception. Annual expenditures per student in relation to GDP per capita in compulsory schooling fell from 34 to 24 percent between 1991 and 2000 (OECD (1995), (2003)). The number of students in compulsory schooling increased during the same period which contributed to a fall in the number of teachers per 100 students from 8.7 to 7.8 during the period 1992 to 2001. The decentralization of the Swedish schooling system that took place in 1993 affected the total resource allocation to schools and it also increased the dispersion of resource between municipalities…

Author: Annette Bergemann,Gerard van den Berg

Source: IFAU – Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation

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