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 …

vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … estimation, show economically significant effects of shocks to the number of vacancies on employment dynamics, while shocks to … the number of unemployed are not very important. Matching frictions are more important for employment during booms than …