offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system … unemployed person. The support system was piloted in several employment offices. In those pilot offices, half of the caseworkers …We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment …

strategies even against the will of the unemployed person. They may assign job assignments and labour market programmes without …In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring … unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important case-worker heterogeneity: Some consider …

dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching …This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers …

labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base …. For identification we exploit that German local employment agencies (LEAs) have a high degree of autonomy in determining … programs, in particular by subsidized employment and longer training programs. These findings complement the negative …

Subsidized employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to …. We also find that, compared to non-participation, both programmes are ineffective for unemployed who find jobs easily … anyway, as well as for those with short unemployment duration. For unemployed with potentially long unemployment duration and …

of typical active labour market programs for the unemployed. Such biases would lead to false policy conclusions about the … particularly important for selection correction. Moreover, it is important to account for past performance on the labour market in … a very detailed and flexible way. Information on job search behaviour, timing of unemployment and program start, as well …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …