site.btaLack of Active Labour Market Policy Would Have Increased Unemployed by 13.2 Per Cent - Survey

Lack of Active Labour Market Policy  Would Have Increased Unemployed by 13.2 Per Cent - Survey

Sofia, June 23 (BTA) - The net effect of the active labour
market measures is 13.2 per cent, a survey conducted in 2013 and
2014 shows, according to comments by Atanas Atanassov, the
manager of one of the organisations involved. The surveys were
presented Tuesday at a conference organized under a project
titled "Evaluation of effect of active policies on the labour
market financed with funds from the state budget". The project
was funded under Operational Programme Human Resources
Development.

"The net effect compares what happens to unemployed who have
passed through the programmes and measures with those who could
have but didn't," the expert said. Without such the unemployed
would have been 13.2 per cent more, which means that the people
who did were more successful in finding jobs.

The programmes and measures covered several dozen thousands of
unemployed. Nearly half of the have found jobs. To these, we
should also add those who managed to retire thanks to the
relevant policies.

The most effective measures were those intended for young people
and university graduates. It also turns out that women are more
successful than men on the labour market. When an unemployed
person has participated in programmes and measures targeting the
private sector, he/she stands a strong chance of keeping
his/her job.

The people covered by the programmes and measures related to the
state administration find it more difficult to get jobs because
specific ones should be created for them, the expert said.

The net effects show that the active policy on the labour market
has contributed to increasing employment by an average 2.3 per
cent in 2003 - 2011, the most significant improvements being
observed in the group of long-term unemployed, another survey
found.