how labour market information could contribute to the design of various employment services is likewise a challenge given the wideranging services involved job matching vocational guidance information dissemination organising job fairs subsidies for unemployed workers wage subsidies and onthejob training flexibility in the management of labour market policies and programmes is central to optimising their contribution to competitiveness inclusion and prosperity at the local level flexibility can take the form of the involvement of local offices in the design of programmes freedom to choose how to spend budgets the possibility to negotiate performance targets and choose target groups for programmes and the opportunity to collaborate with other actors see box