Asymmetric Effects of National-based Active Labour Market Policies

REFERENCES

• Altavilla C. and Caroleo F. E. (2006a) Evaluating the dynamic effects of active labour policies in Italy, Labour 20(2), 349–382. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2006.00340.x
   Google Scholar
• Altavilla C. and Caroleo F. E. (2006b) Evaluating asymmetries in active labour policies: the case of Italy, in Caroleo F. E. and Destefanis S. (Eds) The European Labour Market: Regional Dimensions. Physica, Heidelberg.
   Google Scholar
• Altavilla C., Caroleo F. E., Di Monte P. and Veneziano S. (2009) Le peculiarità della normativa nazionale sulle politiche del lavoro nelle regioni del Mezzogiorno, in Trivellato U. (Ed.) Il lavoro che cambia: Regolazione, welfare e politiche attive del lavoro. Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro (CNEL), Rome.
   Google Scholar
• Armstrong H. and Taylor J. (2000) Regional Economics and Policy, 3rd Edn Blackwell, Oxford.
   Google Scholar
• Bai J. and Ng S. (2002) Determining the number of factors in approximate factor models, Econometrica 70, 191–222. doi: 10.1111/1468-0262.00273
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bellman L. and Jackman R. (1996) Aggregate impact analysis, in Schmid G., O'Reilly J. and Schömann K. (Eds) International Handbook of Labour Market Policy and Evaluation ch. 5. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
   Google Scholar
• Bernanke B. S., Boivin J. and Eliasz P. S. (2005) Measuring the effects of monetary policy: a factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) approach, Quarterly Journal of Economics 120(1), 387–422.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blanchard O. and Wolfers J. (2000) The role of shocks and institutions in the rise of European unemployment: the aggregate evidence, Economic Journal 110, C1–C33. doi: 10.1111/1468-0297.00518
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blien U., Hirschenauer F. and Thi Hong Van P. (2010) Classification of regional labour markets for purposes of labour market policy, Papers in Regional Science 89, 859–880. doi: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2010.00331.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boeri T. and Garibaldi P. (2007) Two-tier reforms of employment protection: a honeymoon effect?, Economic Journal 117, 357–385. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02060.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Büttner T. and Prey H. (1998) Does active labour-market policy affect structural unemployment? An empirical investigation for West German regions, 1986–1993, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften 118, 389–413.
   Google Scholar
• Caliendo M., Hujer R. and Thomsen S. L. (2008) Identifying effect heterogeneity to improve the efficiency of job creation schemes in Germany, Applied Economics 40(9), 1101–1122. doi: 10.1080/00036840500438897
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Calmfors L., Forslund A. and Hemstròm M. (2001) Does active labour market policies work? Lessons from the Swedish experiences, Swedish Economic Policy Review 8, 61–124.
   Google Scholar
• Card D., Kluve J. and Weber A. (2009) The Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Programs – A Meta Analysis. Discussion Paper Number 4002. Institut Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), Bonn.
   Google Scholar
• Cook B. (2008) Regional and Local Employment Policies: The Rise of New Regionalism. Working Paper Number 08-04. Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW.
   Google Scholar
• Cook B., Mitchell W., Quirk V. and Watts M. (2008) Creating Effective Local Labour Markets: A New Framework for Regional Employment Policy. Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW.
   Google Scholar
• Decressin J. and Fatás A. (1995) Regional labor market dynamics in Europe, European Economic Review 39(9), 1627–1655. doi: 10.1016/0014-2921(94)00102-2
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Destefanis S. and Fonseca R. (2007) Matching efficiency and labour market reform in Italy: a macroeconometric assessment, Labour 21(1), 57–84. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2006.00368.x
   Google Scholar
• Dixon R., Lim G. C. and Freebairn J. (2010) Regional Beveridge Curves: A Latent Variable Approach. Working Paper Series Number 15. Melbourne, VIC: Melbourne Institute.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission (2006) Effective European active labour market policies, in Employment in Europe 2006. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
   Google Scholar
• Fahr R. and Sunde U. (2006) Regional dependencies in job creation: an efficiency analysis for Western Germany, Applied Economics 38(10), 1193–1206. doi: 10.1080/00036840600685140
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fertig M., Schmidt C. M. and Schneider H. (2006) Active labor market policy in Germany – is there a successful policy strategy?, Regional Science and Urban Economics 36, 399–430. doi: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2006.01.001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gerfin M. and Lechner M. (2002) A microeconometric evaluation of the active labour market policy in Switzerland, Economic Journal 112(482), 854–893. doi: 10.1111/1468-0297.00072
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gorter C. and van Ours J. (1994) Matching unemployment and vacancies in regional labour markets: an empirical analysis for the Netherlands, Papers in Regional Science 73, 153–167.
   Google Scholar
• Hansen B. (1970) Excess demand, unemployment, vacancies and wages, Quarterly Journal of Economics 84, 1–23. doi: 10.2307/1879397
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heckman J., Lalonde R. and Smith J. (1999) The economics and econometrics of active labor market programs, in Ashenfelter O. and Card D. (Eds) Handbook of Labor Economics. Vol. 3A, pp. 1865–2095. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
   Google Scholar
• Holt C. and David M. (1966) The concept of vacancies in a dynamic theory of the labor market, in Measurement and Interpretation of Job Vacancies. Columbia University Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), New York, NY.
   Google Scholar
• Hujer R., Blien U., Caliendo M. and Ziess C. (2006) Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Germany – a dynamic panel approach using regional data, in Caroleo F. E. and Destefanis S. (Eds) The European Labour Market: Regional Dimensions, pp. 287–308. Physica, Heidelberg.
   Google Scholar
• Ilmakunnas P. and Pesola H. (2003) Regional labour market matching functions and efficiency analysis, Labour 17(3), 413–437. doi: 10.1111/1467-9914.00247
   Google Scholar
• Jackman R., Layard R. and Savouri S. (1990) Mismatch: A Framework for Thought. Discussion Paper Number 01. Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London.
   Google Scholar
• Jones D. R. and Manning D. N. (1992) Long term unemployment, hysteresis and the unemployment–vacancy relationship: a regional analysis, Regional Studies 26, 17–29. doi: 10.1080/00343409212331346751
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kluve J. (2010) The effectiveness of European active labor market programs, Labour Economics 17(6), 904–918. doi: 10.1016/j.labeco.2010.02.004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kluve J., Card D., Fertig M., Gora M., Jacobi L., Jensen P., Leetmaa R., Nima L., Patacchini E., Schaffner S., Schmidt C. M., van der Klaauw B. and Weber A. (2006) Active Labor Market Policy in Europe: Performance and Perspectives. Springer, Berlin.
   Google Scholar
• Layard R., Nickell S. and Jackman R. (1991) Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
   Google Scholar
• Lechner M. and Wunsch C. (2009) Active labour market policy in East Germany: waiting for the economy to take off, Economics of Transition 17(4), 661–702. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00362.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martin J. P. (1998) What works among active labour market policies: evidence from OECD countries' experiences, in Debelle G. and Borland J. (Eds) Unemployment and the Australian Labour Market. Proceedings of the RBA Annual Conference. Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, NSW.
   Google Scholar
• McVicarD.PodivinskyJ. M. (2010) Are active labour market programs least effective where they are most needed? The case of the British New Deal for Young People. Paper presented at the EALE/SOLE 3rd International Conference London, UK, June 17–19 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Mortensen D. and Pissarides C. (1994) Job creation and job destruction in the theory of unemployment, Review of Economic Studies 61, 397–415. doi: 10.2307/2297896
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nickell S. and Layard R. (1999) Labour market institutions and economic performance, in Ashenfelter O. and Card D. (Eds) Handbook of Labor Economics, pp. 3029–3084. North Holland, London.
   Google Scholar
• Pesaran H. M. and Smith R. (1995) Estimating long-run relationships from dynamic heterogeneous panels, Journal of Econometrics 109, 79–113. doi: 10.1016/0304-4076(94)01644-F
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Petrongolo B. and Pissarides C. (2001) Looking into the black box: a survey of the matching function, Journal of Economic Literature 39, 390–431. doi: 10.1257/jel.39.2.390
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pissarides C. (2000) Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, 2nd Edn. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
   Google Scholar
• Puhani P. A. (2003) Active labour market policy and labour market flows – evidence from Polish regional data, International Journal of Manpower 24, 897–915. doi: 10.1108/01437720310507929
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shimer R. (2005) The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment, vacancies, and wages: evidence and theory, American Economic Review 95(1), 25–49. doi: 10.1257/0002828053828572
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stock J. H. and Watson M. W. (1998) Diffusion Indexes. Working Paper Number 6702. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA.
   Google Scholar
• Stock J. H. and Watson M. W. (2002) Macroeconomic forecasting using diffusion indexes, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 20(2), 147–162. doi: 10.1198/073500102317351921
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Trivellato U. (2009) Analisi e proposte in tema di valutazione degli effetti di politiche del lavoro. Report Number 10. Commissione di Indagine sul Lavoro, Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro (CNEL), Rome.
   Google Scholar
• Trivellato U., Rettore E. and Martini A. (2003) La valutazione delle politiche del lavoro in presenza di selezione: migliorare la teoria, i metodi o i dati?, Politica economica 3, 301–341.
   Google Scholar
• Warren R. S. (1991) The estimation of frictional unemployment: a stochastic frontier approach, Review of Economics and Statistics 73(2), 373–377. doi: 10.2307/2109532
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wunsch C. and Lechner M. (2008) What did all the money do? On the general ineffectiveness of recent West German labour market programmes, Kyklos 61(1), 134–174. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2008.00396.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yashiv E. (2006) Labor search and matching in macroeconomics, European Economic Review 50(4), 909–936. doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2006.03.001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar