offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system … unemployed person. The support system was piloted in several employment offices. In those pilot offices, half of the caseworkers …We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment …

strategies even against the will of the unemployed person. They may assign job assignments and labour market programmes without …In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring … unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important case-worker heterogeneity: Some consider …

dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching …This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers …

labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base …. For identification we exploit that German local employment agencies (LEAs) have a high degree of autonomy in determining … programs, in particular by subsidized employment and longer training programs. These findings complement the negative …

Subsidized employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to …. We also find that, compared to non-participation, both programmes are ineffective for unemployed who find jobs easily … anyway, as well as for those with short unemployment duration. For unemployed with potentially long unemployment duration and …

of typical active labour market programs for the unemployed. Such biases would lead to false policy conclusions about the … particularly important for selection correction. Moreover, it is important to account for past performance on the labour market in … a very detailed and flexible way. Information on job search behaviour, timing of unemployment and program start, as well …

jobs in the regular labour market that would otherwise not be taken up by the unemployed. We also find negative effects for … traditional employment programmes operated in sheltered labour markets. For training courses the results are mixed. …In the second half of the 1990s Switzerland introduced an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a …

This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …

employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing …