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Russia and EU member states

Figure 3. Long-term unemployment rate in Russia and EU member states. Source:
developed by the authors based on statistical data [Russia and the European Union.
2017].

Many long-term programs in the labor market tend to apply to those individuals who are
unemployed for a certain minimum period of time. This restriction is due to the savings
of public funds. These programs may include job creation and employment subsidies,
but as usual, these subsidies are not provided to the long-term unemployed. However,
some exceptions are also allowed here: an amendment for work with disabilities, youth
programs in Belgium and France, etc. Retraining programs are usually provided to the
unemployed, regardless of the duration of unemployment.

In the active programs implemented in the 1990s, the impact of employment on the
technologies of profiling the unemployed was widely discussed. These programs were
designed to influence the employment of the short-term unemployed so that they would
have a high risk of long-term unemployment [Proposal for Guidelines for Member
States Employment Policies 2000. 1999]. At the same time, countries began to use
methods such as building individual impact plans for the unemployed, which in itself
created the conditions for combining individual obligations and problems. Unemployed
profiling is a procedure performed by the employment service based on the estimated
number of long-term unemployed. For this purpose, such methods are used as drawing
up the development of individual impact plans for the unemployed, which allows them
to combine individual investment obligations and the problem in solving the tasks
assigned to the unemployed, i.e. to solve such tasks as: developing and implementing an
unemployment plan. The existing profiling methods, based on a quantified number of
unemployed, are evaluated by the probability of the transition of unemployed persons
who are newly registered with the employment service to the ranks of the long-term
unemployed.
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