Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from a Randomized Experiment

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. The support system was piloted in several employment offices in which, randomly, half of the caseworkers used the system and the other half acted as control group. Caseworkers retained full discretion about the choice of active labour market programmes, and the evaluation results showed that caseworkers largely did not follow the statistical support system. This indicates that stronger incentives are needed for caseworkers to comply with statistical profiling and targeting systems.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Behncke, Stefanie ; Frölich, Markus ; Lechner, Michael
Published in:	Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. - Heidelberg : Springer, ISSN 2235-6282. - Vol. 145.2009, 3, p. 221-268
Publisher:	Heidelberg : Springer
Subject:	Profiling \| active labour market programmes \| ALMP \| statistical treatment rules \| unemployment \| public employment services

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1007/BF03399281 [DOI] hdl:10419/185915 [Handle] RePEc:ses:arsjes:2009-III-1 [RePEc]
Classification:	J68 - Public Policy
Source:	EconStor

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