The political economy of active labor-market policy

Politics and Society

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 435-457

  Bonoli, Giuliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

active labor market policies; ALMP; labor market policy; social policy; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650192831     PISSN: 00323292     EISSN: 15527514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032329210381235     Document Type: Article

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77. More recent meta-evaluations have reached more encouraging results.
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79. The 1994 reform was instrumental in promoting the well-known "flexicurity" approach to labor-market policy, characterized by low employment protection (flexibility) and generous unemployment compensation benefits (security). The introduction of activation was needed to make sure that incentives would remain favorable to employment.
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