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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

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.

English, French

Institutional set-up of active labour market policy provision in OECD and EU countries

Organisational set-up, regulation and capacity

This study provides a framework to compare and classify the institutional set-up of active labour market policy (ALMP) provision across countries, which is a key determinant of how well ALMP systems can respond to changing labour market needs, e.g. in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The paper builds on an OECD-EC questionnaire on “Active labour market policy measures to mitigate the rise in (long-term) unemployment” filled in by OECD and EU countries in the last quarter of 2020. The paper presents a dashboard of the institutional set-up of ALMP provision in 43 OECD and EU countries, which classifies the ALMP systems of different countries according to their organisational set-up (i.e. division of responsibilities between key stakeholders), their regulatory set-up (i.e. key legislation regulating ALMP provision) and their capacity to deliver employment support services (i.e. resources available).

English

Keywords: activation, labour market institutions, active labour market policies
JEL: H11: Public Economics / Structure and Scope of Government / Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government; J08: Labor and Demographic Economics / General / Labor Economics Policies; H50: Public Economics / National Government Expenditures and Related Policies / National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
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