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In both cases a regular employment contract for the subsidized person is reąuired. This is not the case for subsidies of the practical Job training programme. In this case, though the subsidized person enjoys the fuli programme of social Insurance, the employer does not provide an employment contract, Rather youth are offered the opportunity to participate in practical on-the-Job training precisely because of the lack of a direct opportunity of procuring employment. Moreover they are offered an individual subsidy to cover their living expenses. The company does not incur any expenses during this time. If it later takes on the subsidized person with a regular employment contract, it enjoys the adventage of not needing the initial training period for a new employee. *

This kind of measure is mainly intended for youth with completed Professional training. Even if they do not always result in an employment contract, they provide an extension of training through practical knowledge and by that improve the futurę prospects of employment.

These measures for procuring employment belong to the traditional tools of active labour market policy. Moreover the Labour Market Administration tries to achieve a problem-oriented focus of the measures by special programmes. The largest of these special programmes is shown as follows.