This paper examines the impact of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) on employment retention and advancement. The WFTC, which replaced Family Credit in October 1999, supplemented earnings of low paid workers living in low income families. It was designed to increase the financial incentive...

"Many studies have analysed the effectiveness of single active labour market programmes (ALMPs) for welfare recipients in different countries. As empirical evidence reveals that welfare recipients in Germany often participate in multiple programmes, I evaluate the sequential participation of...

The ‘Want2Work’ programme was designed to help individuals back into work. This article uses propensity score matching to evaluate the success of a policy that cannot otherwise be evaluated using standard parametric techniques. Using a range of estimation methods, sub-samples and types of...

Active employment The policies are those that involve a mix of measures, methods, processes and tools with which it aims to increase employment levels, the development of coherent systems of active measures at national and local solutions and to maintain unemployment levels acceptable. They...

Important tool to regulate the labor market, employment policies are concerns of state intervention in the labor market in order to ensure the highest level of employment and reduce the possible undesirable effects of unemployment. The transition process of the Romanian economy, which began 20...

The Romanian economy's transition from centralized economy to market economy, started 22 years ago, was a difficult time for our country, which caused significant changes in all areas of society: political, economic and social, manifesting a series of disturbances across the economy, labor...

The paper is focused on exploring, from the european perspective, the possible reactions to the impact of the global crisis on brain drain. The policy responses to an accelerated brain drain process can be analyzed at three levels: countries of origin, countries of destination and EU level. For...

Creating conditions for employment factor to be active and creative is a socio-economic problem facing all countries today. Government management efficiency and quality of governance must be assessed in terms of results in the use of labor resources of the country. The complexity of the concept...

Intensive Support is the label for the major form of assistance provided to jobseekers by private providers under contract to the Commonwealth Government (The Job Network). This paper analyses the effect of this assistance on employment outcomes using data from the Household, Income and Labour...

This paper estimates the social costs of job loss due to environmental regulation. Per job lost, potential social costs of job loss are high, plausibly over $100,000 in present value costs (2012 dollars) per permanently lost job. However, these social costs will typically be far less than the...