Evaluation of the active labor market program "Beautiful Serbia".

Autor/inn/en	Bonin, Holger; Rinne, Ulf
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Evaluation of the active labor market program "Beautiful Serbia". Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Evaluierung des aktiven Arbeitsmarktprogramms "Beautiful Serbia".
Quelle	Bonn (2006), 81 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA Research Report. 8
Beigaben	Tabellen 32; grafische Darstellungen 11
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Öffentliche Förderung; Ausbildung; Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitsmarktentwicklung; Arbeitsmarktforschung; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Öffentliche Hand; Arbeitgeber; Montenegro; Serbien
Abstract	"Beautiful Serbia (BS) represents an active labor market program (ALMP) operating in Serbia and Montenegro since January 2004, administered and co-financed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The program has been implemented with the support and co-financing from the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Policy (MoLESP) and is fully incorporated into the National Employment Service (NES). The BS program consists of two main components: first, the provision of vocational training to long-term and otherwise disadvantaged unemployed individuals and second, their subsequent temporary employment by contracted firms to refurbish public buildings and spaces. The intended outcomes are not only net job creation, but also improved quality of life in municipalities covered by the program, and an increased capacity of MoLESP, NES and target municipalities to conceive, implement and monitor active labor market programs. This report evaluates the net impact of the BS program on participants, employing standard econometric procedures. The primary objective is to assess the program's effectiveness in terms of increased employability, better integration into the labor market and relative wage gains of participants. The difference between various participants' outcomes with and without the program is estimated using a so-called quasiexperimental approach, i.e. participants are compared only with comparable nonparticipants by employing a matching procedure. Furthermore, the report evaluates general effects of the program on the improvement of living conditions in the municipalities covered by the program and the program's overall efficiency using the tools of cost-benefit analyses. The remainder of this report is organized as follows. Chapter 2 gives a brief overview about the BS program within the context of the situation in the construction sector and the general labor market in Serbia and Montenegro. Chapter 3 discusses the data of the empirical analysis. After explaining the evaluation strategy in chapter 4, the program impacts are quantified in chapter 5. Chapter 6 provides a cost-benefit analysis. Finally, chapter 7 summarizes and gives policy recommendations." (excerpt).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2007/2