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The accessibility to Employment Offices in the Spainish labour market
Suárez, Patricia; Mayor, Matías; Cueto, Begoña - 2010
The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …
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Public employment services under decentralization : evidence from a natural experiment
Mergele, Lukas; Kloß, Michael - 2019
This paper studies whether the decentralization of public employment services (PES) increases job placements among the unemployed. Decentralizing PES has been a widely applied reform used by governments aiming to enhance their efficacy. However, economic theory is ambiguous about its effects,...
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The short-run and long-run effects of decentralizing public employment services
Weber, Michael - 2016
A German policy experiment from 2012 allows me to identify the short-run and longruncausal effects of decentralization on the placement efficiency of public employmentservices (PES). I exploit variation over time and across districts with different types ofPES in a difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451327
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More caseworkers shorten unemployment durations and save costs : results from a field experiment in an Austrian public employment office
Böheim, René; Eppel, Rainer; Mahringer, Helmut - 2022
search requirements. More intensive counselling led to shorter unemployment episodes due to faster job entry, but also to … unemployment but are also cost-effective. …
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A field experiment on labor market speeddates for unemployed workers
Klaauw, Bas van der; Ziegler, Lennart - 2019
We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of labor market speeddates where unemployed workers meet temporary employment agencies. Our analysis shows that participation in such events increases immediate job finding by 6-7 percentage points. In the subsequent months, employment...
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The impact of lower caseloads in public employment services on the unemployed
Böheim, René; Eppel, Rainer; Mahringer, Helmut - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-25
with job search requirements. It shortened unemployment spells through faster job entry, but also through more exits from … the labour force in the 2 years following treatment. The duration of unemployment was reduced for a number of subgroups of … time out of the labour force. The quality of jobs after unemployment, measured by wages, did not change. A cost …
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376305
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015 - Date: October 26, 2015
intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376342
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Public Employment Redux
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2020
The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model of private and public employment based on two features....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843719
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Mixed economy of welfare emerging in Poland : outplacement and non-governmental employment agencies examples
Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2015
One of the key challenges of social policy in Poland in the early 21st century is to adapt its management to the requirements of a service economy. Essential conditions for the mixed economy of welfare have been already created after adjustments of the subsystems of national social policy during...
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