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- Title
Manpower Training Programmes and Employment Stability.
- Authors
Zweimüller, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
- Abstract
The article presents a study on the Austrian labor market policy and its recurrent unemployment. Most industrialized countries spend non-negligible amounts on 'active labor market policies', such as direct job creation, employment subsidies and labor market-training programmes. Among these policy measures, manpower-training programmes (MTPs) are of high importance. In most countries the budgetary funding of MTPs has been increasing, in both absolute and relative terms. Austria's position as a low-unemployment country has eroded, and the share of problem groups among the unemployed increased during the 1980s. Although MTPs are not used as extensively as in, for instance, Scandinavia, they are quantitatively important and are the most heavily used 'active' measures. Austrian labor market policy turns out to be a sort of `catching-up' strategy: (i) disadvantaged and less motivated unemployed are given priority in programme enrolment, and (ii) participation in such courses improves employment stability considerably.
- Subjects
AUSTRIA; EMPLOYMENT policy; UNEMPLOYMENT; LABOR market; DEVELOPED countries; EMPLOYMENT subsidies
- Publication
Economica, 1996, Vol 63, Issue 249, p113
- ISSN
0013-0427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2554637