An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Labor Market Integration Policies in EU Member States Using PROMETHEE

Jason Papathanasiou, Anastasia Blouchoutzi, Panagiota Digkolou, Christos Nikas

OAI: oai:igi-global.com:268355 • DOI: 10.4018/IJORIS.2021010106

From an economic point of view, the rational response towards migration is the labor market integration of immigrants. Within the above framework, several actions have been developed by the European Union member states over the last few years, in an effort to integrate migrants to local communities. This paper evaluates the performance of the European Member States as regards to their labor market integration policies using the Zaragoza indicators for employment. Combining those indicators, the data will be processed with the well-known multi-criteria analysis method PROMETHEE. The model will be constituted by the selected years from 2008 to 2017 as 10 successive scenarios, the 28 EU countries as alternatives, and eight criteria. The paper will end up with ten final rankings of the countries, which will be analyzed in detail.

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