The Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) publishes the Study on Active Employment Policies in Extremadura. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the three main groups of programs that make up the active employment policies implemented by the Public Employment Service of Extremadura (SEXPE): employment incentives in the private sector, direct job creation in the public sector and training, in order to identify areas for improvement in spending. To this end, eight programs were selected from these three main groups aimed at improving the employability of the unemployed and an analysis of their effectiveness was carried out.
The eight programs selected fall under the Extremadura Employment Strategy 2016-2019. The total expenditure executed in these programs in the 2016-2019 calls for proposals amounted to 457 million euros, which represents an average of 114 million per year. This amount represents approximately 33 % of the SEXPE budget in the different years of the analysis period. On an annual average, the number of beneficiaries of the evaluated programs amounts to 16,684, which represents almost 14 % of the unemployed in Extremadura according to the Active Population Survey.