OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

ISSN :
1815-199X (online)
DOI :
10.1787/1815199x
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This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
 

From Inactivity to Work

The Role of Active Labour Market Policies You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Stéphane Carcillo1, David Grubb1
Author Affiliations
  • 1: OECD, France

Publication Date
15 June 2006
Bibliographic information
No.:
36
Pages
76
DOI
10.1787/687686456188

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Many OECD countries have in recent decades experienced periods of relatively rapid growth in nonemployment benefit expenditures and recipiency rates which have not subsequently been reversed. By contrast, in a number of OECD countries the number of unemployment benefit recipients has declined fairly sharply since the mid-1990s. Although national situations for particular benefits vary greatly, a variety of evidence suggests that there is now often substantial scope for bringing people currently in the sick and disabled, lone-parent, old-age and non-categorical social assistance groups into employment.
JEL Classification:
  • H53: Public Economics / National Government Expenditures and Related Policies / Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
  • I38: Health, Education, and Welfare / Welfare and Poverty / Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
  • J20: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor / General
  • J68: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies / Public Policy