We evaluate the presence of effects from joining one of four active labour market programs in Romania in the late 1990s compared to the no-program state.  Using rich follow-up survey data and propensity score matching, we find that three programs (training and retraining, self-employment...

Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work.  One important concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is more effective and for whom.  Using unusually...

This paper studies the effects of service offshoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a rich data set of Italian firms and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that service offshoring has no effect on the level of employment but changes its...