Evaluation of employment measures taken by the Public Employment Service Carinthia

This research project consisted in evaluating employment measures – specifically employment integration subsidies, socio-economic enterprises, non-profit employment projects, combination wages and one-person enterprises – taken between 2007 and 2011 in the federal state Carinthia. At the centre of the research was an analysis of the short-term and longer-term employment history of relevant target groups of labour market policy (youths, senior citizens, persons farthest from the labour market, long-term unemployed persons and re-entrants).

The evaluation involved aspects such as the structure of participants of measures and their employment situation before the measure, income effects, combination of measures, cost per subsidy / per placement, the structure of employing businesses, as well as regional aspects.

A control group design for calculating the net effects of measures based on a specific matching approach was also used. The overall design of the research was a longitudinal one and contrasted the results after participating in the measure with the situation before the measure. Moreover, the project involved an estimation of dead-weight effects in relation with employment integration subsidies and combination wages by branches and target groups.

The aim of the research was an analysis of the results, which provide a starting point for targeted and target-group-specific implementation, design, sustainability and efficiency of the employment measures.