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2022•The EUrASEANs journal on global socio-economic dynamicsOpen access

ACTIVE LABOUR MARKET POLICY AS A COMPONENT OF FLEXICURITY

Magdaléna Přívarová

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Active labor market policy includes measures to facilitate the return to work (training courses for the unemployed, incentives for unemployed to return to work, support for creating new jobs, etc.). Within the EU countries, we can observe some convergence in the activation of the unemployed. On the other hand, there are also significant differences resulting from the different performance of their labour markets as well as the heterogeneity of their institutional environments. The current paper aims to analyse these tendencies in the example of the following countries: Austria, France, United Kingdom and Spain. The results show that despite some differences, the most significant common factor of the active labour market policy in the selected EU member states is tightening the program participation criteria.

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Active labor market policy includes measures to facilitate the return to work (training courses for the unemployed, incentives for unemployed to return to work, support for creating new jobs, etc.). Within the EU countries, we can observe some convergence in the activation of the unemployed. On the other hand, there are also significant differences resulting from the different performance of their labour markets as well as the heterogeneity of their institutional environments. The current paper aims to analyse these tendencies in the example of the following countries: Austria, France, United Kingdom and Spain. The results show that despite some differences, the most significant common factor of the active labour market policy in the selected EU member states is tightening the program participation criteria.

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Active labor market policy includes measures to facilitate the return to work (training courses for the unemployed, incentives for unemployed to return to work, support for creating new jobs, etc.). Within the EU countries, we can observe some convergence in the activation of the unemployed. On the other hand, there are also significant differences resulting from the different performance of their labour markets as well as the heterogeneity of their institutional environments. The current paper aims to analyse these tendencies in the example of the following countries: Austria, France, United Kingdom and Spain. The results show that despite some differences, the most significant common factor of the active labour market policy in the selected EU member states is tightening the program participation criteria.

Key concepts: Flexicurity, Active labour market policies, Incentive, Work (physics), Active ageing, Labour economics, Unemployment, Convergence (economics)

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