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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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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: Evidence from an Internet-based search channel
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
discrimination, such as the searchers’ ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190472
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The Determinants and Consequences of Unemployed Workers’ Wage Demands
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
This paper studies the determinants and labor market consequences of unemployed workers’ wage demands using direct data on the workers’ actual wage requests. Our results show that most workers want a wage close to what they earned in their previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008774233
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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