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Job Creation Programs in an International Comparison(1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

Marcia De Wachter  and
Yolanda Somers
Marcia De Wachter
Affiliation:
U.F.S.I.A. – Antwerpen
Yolanda Somers
Affiliation:
U.F.S.I.A. – Antwerpen
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INTRODUCTION

With an election year in France and in the Netherlands, a national collective convention in Belgium and high unemployment rates in most European countries, an economic reflection on the effectiveness and efficiency of the pursued job creation policies is certainly meaningful.

The main purpose of the job creation policies, as conceived in most European countries, is the promotion of an effective and fair fine tuning of supply and demand of labor.

The instruments traditionally used, can be divided into five categories, namely :

1. Wage-cost subsidies

2. Educational and vocational measures

3. Direct job creation measures

4. Reduction of labor supply

5. Promotion of entrepreneurship.

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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 52 , Issue 3-4: Symposium on Unemployment in Europe , December 1986 , pp. 413 - 437
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1986 

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This article is based upon an extensive comparison of job creation policies, sponsored by the SER/COB. For detailed information see: De Wachter, M. and Visser E. (1986), Doelmatigheid intredingbworderende arbeidsmarktinstrumenten. SER/COB. 100 pag.

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