In this paper we investigate how counseling and monitoring affect firms? hiring strategies and performance. Using a social experiment which induced a greater provision of activation, we find that in the short-run, job search assistance changes hiring decisions of small firms. The estimated...

In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may have ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching...

In this paper we investigate how active labor market policy programs affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may also have ambiguous effect on the employer–employee...

In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may have ambiguous effect on the employer- employee matching...

We evaluate the impact of both on-the-job and out-of-employment training on the mobilities on the labour market. Using a French survey that provides work and training participation histories over a five-year period, we estimate a multi-spell multi-state transitions model with unobserved...

[eng] In July 2001, France introduced a more generous unemployment-insurance system. Persons registered at the National Employment Agency (ANPE) at the time of the reform could choose between staying in the former system and switching to the new one. Our paper examines the selection issue and...

On July 2001 a more generous unemployment insurance system was introduced in France.Those who were registered at the national unemployment agency at the moment of thereform could choose between staying in the former system and switching to the new one.This paper deals with the selection problem....

While job search theory predicts that active labour market policies (ALMPs) can aect post-unemployment outcomes, empirical evaluations investigating transition rates have mostly focused on the impact of ALMPs on exit rates from the current unemployment spell. We use a social experiment, which...

While job search theory predicts that active labour market policies (ALMPs) can affect post-unemployment outcomes, empirical evaluations investigating transition rates have mostly focused on the impact of ALMPs on exit rates from the current unemployment spell. We use a social experiment, which...

[ger] Die Auswirkung der Flexibilität des Arbeitsmarkts auf die Eingliederung der jungen Menschen wird weiterhin kontrovers diskutiert. Auch wenn durch eine Zeitarbeit Berufserfahrung gesammelt werden und dieser Job ein „Sprungbrett“ in eine stabile Beschäftigung darstellen kann, so bleibt...