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Voluntary Return Programs: Can they Assuage the Effects of the Economic Crisis?
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COMPAS Working Paper; 2010/75
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PLEWA, Piotr, Voluntary Return Programs: Can they Assuage the Effects of the Economic Crisis?, COMPAS Working Paper, 2010/75 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/14117
Abstract
In November 2008 the Spanish government authorized a voluntary return program for foreign workers in
order to decrease unemployment pressures in the wake of 2008/09 financial crisis. Voluntary return
programs are not new. France appears to have been the first country which authorized them in the wake of
the oil crisis of 1973/74. This paper analyzes the Spanish voluntary return program against the background
of lessons provided by the thirty years long experience with similar programs in France. The aim of the
paper is to assess to what extent could voluntary return programs help both the developed and the
developing countries cope with the effects of the crisis.