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 …

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 …

direct effect on employment. Our results show that product demand is important for hiring. Moreover, we show that …

discrimination, such as the searchers’ ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial …

level and employment is determined by labor demand. To compare models, we estimate an encompassing equation for net job …