International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

In this paper, we evaluate the formal education active labor market policy programs in Slovenia during the great recession. The quasi-experimental method of propensity score matching is applied. Performance of active labor market policy programs is typically measured with the average treatment effect on the treated. In the short term, the programs do not reduce unemployment and are characterized by a high dropout rate or a high percentage of unsuccessful completions due to some problematic target groups.

The article contains a description of the national security system of the Republic of Poland, in accordance with the division written in the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Poland of 2014. Particular attention was focused on the subsystem of support, including social entities. The second part presents the selected determinants of social security.