shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

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 …

increased prevalence. Our analysis reveals that open-ended and temporary employment exhibit strikingly different cyclical … behaviour with temporary employment being more volatile. A recession is associated with an initial decline in temporary … employment followed by a sharp rise from the trough to the end of the recession. We argue that the severe recession of the 1990s …