Helping the unemployed

Abstract

"This volume examines the course and nature of unemployment in both countries and the policies of the two governments in combatting it, focusing on measures such as<br> -the training of adults;<br> -recruitment subsidies;<br> -job creation;<br> -employment adive and placement.<br> The authors also present a new econometric evaluation of the overall effects of such measures.<br> The authors recommend the following steps:<br> -an active system of placement an counselling which both helps the individual and insists that they accept any reasonable offer of training or work;<br> -a system which makes high-quality training and re-training available;<br> -a system of recruitment subsidies to help hard-to-place workers;<br> -as a last resort, a system of publicly supported temporary work of reasonable social value, provided at regular workplaces.<br> This book is the result of research carried out at the London School of Economics, the Employment Institute, the University of Kent, the University of Konstanz and the Bundesanstalt für Arbeit and was supported by the Anglo-German Foundation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Disney, R., Bellmann, L., Carruth, A., Franz, W., Jackman, R., Layard, R., Lehmann, H. & Philpott, J. (1992): Helping the unemployed. Active labour markt policies in Britain and Germany. London, 266 p.