EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POLICY MEASURES TO SUPPORT SPATIAL MOBILITY IN SLOVAKIA: THE CONTRIBUTION FOR COMMUTING TO WORK AND THE CONTRIBUTION FOR RESETTLEMENT

• Authors: Štefánik Miroslav , Karasová Katarína
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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This paper evaluates the impact of two active labour market measures providing financial contributions to cover costs related to spatial mobility of the unemployed. One supports daily commuting and the other resettlement. For the purpose of evaluation, administrative data from the obligatory social insurance database and the official register of the unemployed were linked. Three indicators of outcome are identified, commuting time, the income of individuals and employment after the end of support. The richness of the data allowed us to use propensity score matching in order to rule out possible selectivity issues. After achieving satisfactory balance, we have yielded comprehensive and robust, significant positive effects of both of the measures under evaluation. The estimated impact differs regionally and is based on the individual characteristics of the beneficiaries.

Keywords

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SPATIAL MOBILITY; COUNTERFACTUAL IMPACT EVALUATION; LABOUR MARKET; POLICY; RESETTLEMENT; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 711 – 736

Contributors

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Štefánik Miroslav

• Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Šancová 56, 811 05 Bratislava 1, Slovak Republic

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Karasová Katarína