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Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel and Torm, Nina (2022) Active Labour Market Policies in Asia and the Pacific. A review of the literature. Bangkok: United Nations ESCAP, Social Development Division, Working Paper Series.

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Abstract

This paper reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of active labour market programmes in low- and middle-income countries with high informality, highlighting examples of interventions that have been implemented in combination with other policies including social protection measures. In reviewing the literature, we adopt a scoping review methodology to identify studies that look at a range of programme outcomes including earnings, employment, formality and productivity. We include studies from 2000 onwards, and after a thorough selection and screening process we end up with 106 papers for the review. Most of these studies find some positive aspect associated with the programme under study, although significant positive aspects are in many cases contingent on a specific target population, or time frame of programme and evaluation. We employ a theory of change conceptual framework to further discuss the channels, mechanisms and assumptions that are seen to underpin programme effectiveness (or the lack of). Success often depends on specific contextual factors and/or the joint implementation of different types of active and/or passive labour market policies, including specific social protection measures or other public policies.

Item Type: Monographs and Working Papers (Working Paper)
Additional Information: Ref no: ESCAP/6-WP/49
Keywords: Active Labour Market Policies, Social Protection, Asia and Pacific, Systematic Scoping Review
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Economics
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2022 15:24
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/38287
Related URLs: https://www.une ... iew-literature# (Organisation URL)
Funders: Other

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