Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21280 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 606
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual administrative data we investigate the effects of two different schemes of subsidised temporary employment implemented in Switzerland. One scheme operates as a non-profit employment programme (EP), whereas the other one is a subsidy for temporary jobs (TEMP) in firms operating in competitive markets. Using econometric matching methods we find that TEMP is considerably more successful in getting the unemployed back into work than EP. We also find that compared to nonparticipation both programmes are ineffective for unemployed who find job easily anyway as well as for those with short unemployment duration. For unemployed with potentially long unemployment duration and for actual long term unemployed, both programmes may have positive effects, but the effect of TEMP is much larger.
Subjects: 
subsidised temporary job
employment programme
temporary work contracts
active labour market policies
Switzerland
JEL: 
J68
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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