“Active labour market policies, in which government handouts to the unemployed come with strings attached, designed to get the recipient off welfare and back to work as quickly as possible” (The Economist).
Welfare to work. (n.d.). In Economics A-Z: Economic terms, topics and jargon. Retrieved October 7, 2009, from http://www.economist.com/research/Economics/alphabetic.cfm?letter=W#welfaretowork