Effects of active labor market programs on the transition rate from unemployment into regular jobs in the Slovak Republic

The system of active labor market policies (ALMP! in the Slovak Republic co nsists, to a large extent, in the creation of socially purposeful and publi cly useful jobs and in retraining unemployed workers. The effects of these types of active labor market policies are analyzed. This paper uses a uniqu e administrative data from 20 Slovak districts to analyze to what extent it is beneficial for unemployed workers who want a regular job to accept a te mporary ALMP job or enter a retraining program. We find that, indeed, it is beneficial for workers to do so. J. Comp. Econom., March 1999, 27(1), pp. 90-112. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Sancova 56, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak R epublic, Tinbergen Institute, and CERGE-EI, Charles University, 111 21 prag ue 1, Czech Republic, and CertER for Economic Research, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands, William Davidson Institute, and CEPR (C) 1999 Academic Press. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers : J64, C41.