Countries employ a variety of active labour market policies (ALMPs) to address gaps in labour market opportunities and improve jobseekers’ employability. Accurately evaluating these policies can identify what works and for whom. These evaluations (especially counterfactual impact evaluations, CIEs) provide valuable information for making informed policy choices, establishing the accountability of public expenditures, and building support for continued deployment of measures in the longer-term. A key requirement for such evaluations is the use of rich data of good quality, which can be obtained by linking different registers as well as surveys. Such data and CIEs are also important tools for the evaluation of several labour market and social policies.
Source: Impact evaluation of labour market policies through the use of linked administrative data, 2019
