1. Europe 2020 Joint Assessment Framework
draft proposal

2. Europe 2020 Strategy
Europe's new strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
Employment Guidelines:
GL 7: Increasing labour market participation of women and men, reducing structural unemployment and promoting job quality
GL 8: Developing a skilled workforce responding to labour market needs and promoting lifelong learning
GL 9: Improving the quality and performance of education and training systems at all levels and increasing participation in tertiary or equivalent education
GL 10: Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty

3. ESF in the Europe 2020 EGL
GL 7: Apply Flexicurity principles, “... making appropriate use of European Social Fund and other EU funds”
GL 8: Increase responsiveness of education and training systems to current and emerging labour market needs (e.g. low carbon and resource efficient economy. “The ESF and other EU funds should be mobilised where appropriate by Member States to support these objectives.”
GL 10: The extension of employment opportunities is an essential aspect of Member States’ integrated strategies to prevent and reduce poverty and to promote full participation in society and economy. Appropriate use of the European Social Fund and other EU funds should be made to that end.

4. What is the purpose of the JAF?
Analytical tool for evidence based policy making under the Europe 2020 EGL
Identifying major employment challenges and early warnings on potential risk areas
Supporting country examination in spring
Contribute towards AGS, JER,SPC annual review of social dimension, macroeconomic surveillance
Analysis of specific thematic areas (e.g. Flexicurity, quality in work)

5. What are the main elements of JAF?
Quantitative and qualitative assessment tools for identifying key challenges
Target tracking device
Employment Performance Monitor (EPM)

6. Assessment methodology
Basis: Policy areas and indicators
Step 1: Quantitative element
Step 2: Qualitative element
Step 3: Identifying priorities and reaching an overall assessment

7. Mainly EMCO policy areas

8. Mainly SPC policy areas
Corresponds to integrated guideline nr. 1 2 7 8 9 10 11
Preventing poverty through inclusive labour markets, adequate and sustainable social protection and access to high quality, affordable and sustainable services X
11a
Breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty – tackling child poverty
11b
Active inclusion – tackling poverty in working age
11c
Tackling poverty in old age 12
Social inclusion of groups at special risk and anti-discrimination

9. Indicators
Initial list of
Core indicators
Supplementary indicators

10. Example ALMP area Main indicators
ALMP expenditures per person wanting to work
ALMP expenditure as % of GDP (cat. 2,4,5,6,7)
Activation/Support
Activation of registered unemployed
New start/Prevention
Follow up of participants in regular activation measures
Supplementary indicators:
Activation of long-term unemployed in regular activation (LMP cat. 2- 7)
Inflow into long term unemployment (young 6 months, adult 12 months)
Proportion of entrants in regular/assisted activation measures taken up by persons not yet long term unemployed

11. Step 1: Quantitative assessment
General approach
Make data comparable through a standardisation formula
Look at level values and change over time

12. Quantitative assessment
Identifying one key overall outcome indicator per policy area plus several relevant sub-indicators
Standardise key indicator and sub- indicators
Visualise situation per country
Per policy area, assign countries to performance groups through clustering methods

13. Selection of indicators
Example
Policy area 1. Increase labour market participation
Overall objective: raise employment (alternatively, raise participation)
Overall indicator: employment rate (alternatively activity rate (20-64))
Sub-indicators:
Employment gender gap
Employment rate of popn (55-64 overall, men, women)
Average duration of working life
Employment rate of youth
Employment rate of low-skilled persons
Employment rate of non-EU nationals

14. Selection of indicators
Policy area 11b. Inter-generational transmission of poverty: tackling child poverty
Overall objective: Reduce poverty and exclusion of children
Overall indicator: Children at risk of poverty or exclusion
Sub-indicators: At-risk- of poverty rate of children
Children in households suffering from severe material deprivation
Children in jobless households
Impact of social transfers (excl. pensions) in reducing child poverty
Early school leavers

15. Standardisation and visualisation

16. Step 2: Qualitative assessment
Complements and corrects quantitative assessment
Main elements:
Accounting for change over time
Accounting for data problems
Accounting for changes not yet reflected in data
Covering (sub-)areas for which no adequate indicators are available

17. Step 3: Priorities Priority Definition High
Given the national context, solving this challenge is more crucial for improving employment outcomes than solving other challenges.
Medium
Solving this challenge is less crucial for improving employment outcomes than solving other challenges.
Low
Solving this challenge is not very crucial for improving employment outcomes.

18. Step 3: Overall assessment
JAF DECISION TREE
STEP 1
Quantitative
Performance
Check
STEP 2
Qualitative
STEP 3
Assessing
priority
KEC PR
High
Low -
Medium
YES

19. Areas of further work Finetuning list of indicators
Further detailing of quantiative assessment methodology
Detailing of qualitative criteria and criteria for determining priorities