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Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
empirically assess the effectiveness of contracting out employment services to private placement agencies. Our results show that … Employment Service (PES); e.g., they receive more assistance in improving their job search technology. We do not find any overall … difference in the chances of finding employment between private placement agencies and the PES, but this hides important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818826
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Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
empirically assess the effectiveness of contracting out employment services to private placement agencies. Our results show that … Employment Service (PES); e.g., they receive more assistance in improving their job search technology. We do not find any overall … difference in the chances of finding employment between private placement agencies and the PES, but this hides important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818886
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Do Benefit Cuts Boost Job Findings? Swedish Evidence from the 1990s
Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil; Vejsiu, Altin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419198
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Do Benefit Hikes Damage Job Finding? Evidence from Swedish Unemployment Insurance Reforms
Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2005
unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the “treatments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644524
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Lessons from privatization : labour issues in developing and transitional countries
Hoeven, Rolph van der (ed.) - 1998 - 2. impr.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000678370
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Adjustment, employment & missing institutions in Africa : the experience in Eastern & Southern Africa
Van der Geest, Willem (contributor);  … - 1999 - 1. publ.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001371024
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Lessons from privatization : labour issues in developing and transitional countries
Hoeven, Rolph van der (ed.); Sziraczki, Gyorgy (contributor) - 1997 - 1. publ.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014273296