Job Guarantee as active labourmarket policy for tackling long-term unemployment: empirical findings for The Netherlands

Kees  Mosselman; Louis Polstra; Arjen Edzes

Job Guarantee as active labourmarket policy for tackling long-term unemployment: empirical findings for The Netherlands

Kees Mosselman, Louis Polstra, Arjen Edzes

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Abstract

This article analyzis two Dutch experiments in which the government guarantees a job to tackle long-term unemployment. The experiment with the Melkert jobs was carried out in the 1990s. Recently the municipality of Groningen implemented a project in which long-term unemployed people are offered a so-called basic job. The research results of this project demonstrate that the target group can do productive work on a regular basis and that basic jobs have a net positive social added value based on a Social Cost Benefit Analysis (SCBA).
In this article we also pay attention to the recent academic debate between
an unconditional basic income (BIG) and a job guarantee (JG).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	93 - 109
Number of pages	17
Journal	E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies
Volume	12
Issue number	2023/03
Publication status	Published - 4 Sept 2024

Keywords

job guarantee
long-term unemployed
basic income
social cost benefit analysis
social security
basic jobs

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Entrepreneurship

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