For selected target groups, such as unemployed and disadvantaged youth, Christoph Ehlert demonstrates that flexible and …

Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on … integration into the first labor market or further education. Based on a detailed assessment of the particularities of the youth … recent evidence on the effectiveness of these ALMP for youth in Europe, highlighting factors that seem to promote or impede …

unsubsidised job, then they can enter one of four New Deal options. One of these is a job subsidy ( employers' option'), the others … New Deal. Unemployed young men are now about 20% more likely to get jobs as a result of the policy (the stock of youth … up of the employer wage subsidy, but at least a fifth of the effect is due to enhanced job search. Taken as a whole I …