Unemployment and Labour Market Policies – Empirical Analysis for Poland

• Authors: Wiśniewski Zenon , Maksim Monika

Abstracts

EN

This article presents the development of unemployment and labour market policies in Poland in the period 2005–2015. The paper focuses on the nature and structure of unemployment, expenditure from the Labour Fund, active labour market policy instruments and participants. Active labour market policy evaluation was performed quasi–experimentally and was based on a propensity score matching method. The effects of the policies were evaluated based on information concerning the unemployed taken from the Syriusz database.

Keywords

EN

unemployment in Poland; active labour market policies evaluation; propensity score matching

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Olsztyn Economic Journal
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-20

Dates

published

2017-03-31

Contributors

author

Wiśniewski Zenon

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

author

Maksim Monika

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

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