English to Spanish Social Sciences Economics Informe sobre inserción laboral

The integration of a health concept into the activation measures can be regarded as a true novelty in active labour market policies. Although this does not seem to have had an immediate influence on the integration rate, the combination of activation and health measure is likely to improve the long-term employability of older job seekers.

The main weakness of the project is that the project is still too close to the usual ap-proaches employed by the Job Centers and does not make full use of the degrees of freedom granted by the federal programme Perspective 50plus.

This can be seen in the high mentoring ratio, i.e., the ratio between placement officers and participants within the project, which is similar to the regular business of the Job Centers, and in the pre-dominant use of the legal instruments defined by law. Hence, despite the degrees of freedom that the programme offers there seems to be a lack of innovation and creativity at the local level.