Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies

1 Introduction.- 2 The Polish Labour Market in Transition.- 2.1 General Macroeconomic Developments.- 2.2 Employment and Unemployment Developments.- 2.3 Unemployment in the Regional Context.- 2.4 Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) in Poland.- 3 Macroeconometric Almp Evaluation by way of Augmented Matching Functions.- 3.1 Economic Theory: The Matching Function Approach.- 3.2 Literature Survey of Studies on the Matching function.- 3.3 Econometric Issues.- 3.4 Data and Variables.- 3.5 Estimation Results for Poland.- 3.6 Conclusions from the Macroeeonometric Analysis.- 4 Microeconometric ALMP Evaluation: Methodological Issues and Previous Work.- 4.1 The Sample Selection Problem and the Theoretical Case for an Experiment.- 4.2 What Can We Do with Non-Experimental Data?.- 4.3 The Statistical Matching Approach to the Selection Problem in Non-Experimental Studies.- 4.4 Evaluation of ALMPs by Way of Duration Models.- 4.5 Other Methods to Identify Causal Effects.- 4.6 Literature Survey of Empirical Studies on Transition Economies.- 5 Microeconometric ALMP Evaluation: Empirical Analysis for Poland.- 5.1 Data.- 5.2 Empirical Evaluation of ALMPs by Way of the Statistical Matching Approach.- 5.3 Empirical Evaluation of ALMPs by Way of Duration Models.- 5.4 Conclusions from the Microeconometric Analysis.- 6 Conclusions.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- List of Abbreviations.- References.