Publisher's Synopsis
This book uses the Irish experience of active labour market policy to examine the impact of government training and employment programmes on their participants? employment prospects. The book is based on a follow-up survey of programme participants combined with a survey on non-participants, to analyse the effects of programme participation on both employment prospects and earnings. The authors show that the market orientation of programmes is a crucial variable shaping post-programme employment outcomes, a factor which has been recognised neither in previous research, nor in policy formation. The book also argues that the issue of market orientation could be usefully applied to the evaluation of active labour market policies in other European countries.
