Abstract:

The main objectives of employment programmes implemented in Poland by labour offices are professional activisation of the unemployed and reduction of structural mismatches in the labour market. Demandoriented instruments include intervention works, public works, socially useful works and funds for undertaking business activity and for equipping the workplace. They constitute the so-called subsidised employment. Costly implementation of the programmes forces evaluation studies and research on the effectiveness of these instruments. The aim of the article is to use unconditional risk models of competing events (Unconditional Competing Risks -
UCR) to analyse the impact of subsidised employment on the probability and intensity of exiting unemployment. The study used individual data of persons registered in the Poviat Labour Office in Szczecin.