LMP statistics are one of the data sources for monitoring the Employment Guidelines (part II of the Europe 2020 Integrated Guidelines). The guidelines specifically refer to the provision of active labour market policies, which cover LMP measures and LMP services, and adequate social security systems, which include LMP support.
The scope of LMP statistics is limited to public interventions which are explicitly targeted at groups of persons with difficulties in the labour market: the unemployed, persons employed but at risk of involuntary job loss and inactive persons who would like to enter the labour market.
Data on public expenditure and participants (stock and flows) are collected annually from administrative sources. According to the LMP methodology, labour market interventions are classified by type of action.
- LMP services cover all services and activities of the public employment service (PES) together with any other publicly funded services for jobseekers.
- LMP measures cover activation measures for the unemployed and other target groups including the categories of training, job rotation and job sharing, employment incentives, supported employment and rehabilitation, direct job creation, and start-up incentives.
- LMP support covers financial assistance that aims to compensate individuals for loss of wage or salary (out-of-work income maintenance and support, i.e. mostly unemployment benefits) or which facilitates early retirement.
This is disseminated via country qualitative reports and the interactive table below. The table lists the interventions implemented in each country and year, providing access to the full set of qualitative data in each case.
Entries can be filtered to specific groups of interventions, and the associated data can be downloaded in Excel format.
The available filters include:
- the country in which the intervention is implemented
- the intervention number allocated to the intervention as a reference
- the year in which it was implemented
- the classification of the intervention by type of action (see section 3 of the LMP methodology)
- the operational target group of the intervention (see section 6.3 of the LMP methodology)
- and the direct recipient of the expenditure of the intervention (see section 4.2.1 of the LMP methodology).