European social statistics. Labour market policy – expenditure and participants – data 2002. 2004 edition

This publication contains data on public expenditure on Labour Market Policy (LMP) measures and numbers of participants in these measures (stocks, entrants and exits). The database covers measures targeted to people who are unemployed, people in employment but in risk of involuntary job-loss, and inactive persons who are currently not part of the labour force, but who would like to enter the labour market and are disadvantaged in some way. Labour market policy measures are classified in two ways: by type of action and by type of expenditure. The type of action refers to the way in which the measure acts to achieve its objectives (e.g. training measures or employment incentives). Data available since 1998.