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Measures of Active Labor Market Policy - such as training, wage subsidies, public employment measures, and job search assistance - are widely used in European countries to combat unemployment. Little, however, is known about what each country can learn from experiences in other countries. This study provides novel insight on this important policy issue by - discussing the role of the European Commission's Employment Strategy - reviewing the experiences made in European states - and giving the first ever quantitative assessment of the existing cross-country evidence, answering the question "what labor market program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". Using an innovative meta-analytical approach, the authors find that rather than contextual factors such as labor market institutions or the business cycle, it is almost exclusively the program type that matters for program effectiveness: While direct employment programs in the public sector appear detrimental, wage subsidies and "Services and Sanctions" can be effective in increasing participants' employment probability.

Manpower policy --- Labor market --- Labor economics. --- Economic policy. --- Labor Economics. --- Economic Policy. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy

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Paul Knepper discusses the difference social policy makes, or can make, in any response to crime. He also considers the contribution of criminology to the debates on major social policy areas, such as housing, education, employment, health and family.

Crime --- Social policy --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Criminal sociology --- Criminology --- Sociology of crime --- Sociology --- Sociological aspects --- Social policy. --- Sociological aspects.

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Regional planning --- Geography --- geography --- regional geography --- teritorial planning --- geomorphology --- Romania --- Geography. --- Regional planning. --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Government policy --- romania --- territorial planning --- Communities - Urban Groups

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The issue of institutional development has come to prominence during the last decade or so. During this period, even the IMF and the World Bank, which used to treat institutions as mere 'details', have come to emphasize the role of institutions in economic development. However, there are still some important knowledge gaps that need to be filled before we can say that we have a good grip on the issue of institutions and economic development, both theoretically and at the policy level. This book is an attempt to fill these gaps.

Economic development -- Congresses. --- Economic policy -- Congresses. --- Institutional economics -- Congresses. --- Economic development --- Institutional economics --- Economic policy --- Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Developing countries: economic development problems

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Economics --- Economic policy --- Economic policy. --- Economics. --- Research --- Research. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Political aspects