Labour Market Policy in Portugal

Moniz, António (2002): Labour Market Policy in Portugal.

Abstract

The Portuguese National Action Plan for Employment (NAP) is the main instrument for the labour market policy. It was adopted in 1998. The NAP transposes to the Portuguese reality the contents of such guidelines, with the adequate adjustments required by the national specificities, establishing objectives, quantified targets and action deadlines, as well as defining new programmes and measures. Therefore, the objectives of the labour market policy were focusing on the promotion of an adequate transition of the youngsters in active life, on the promotion of social and professional insertion and fight against long term unemployment and exclusion, on the improvement of basic and professional qualification of the working population in a perspective of lifelong training, namely as a way to prevent unemployment phenomena, and on the preventive management and follow-up of sectoral restructuring processes.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: labour market; Portugal; unemployment; qualification; training; restructuring
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J8 - Labor Standards: National and International > J80 - General; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure; K - Law and Economics > K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law > K31 - Labor Law

References

OECD Employment Outlook 2001 Bertelsmann Stiftung (Org.), Internationales Beschäftigungsranking 2000, Gütersloh 2000