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Contracting out public services to private firms has ambiguous effects when quality is imperfectly observable. Using a randomized experiment over a national sample in France, we compare the efficiency of the public employment service (PES) vs. private providers in delivering very similar...
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policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …
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envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …
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This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...
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This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
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since the 2001 French unemployment policy reform (PARE). Several of the schemes are dedicated at improving the quality of … assignment of workers to jobs. As a result, it is necessary to assess their impact on unemployment recurrence as well as … unemployment duration. Using duration models and a very rich data set, we can identify heterogenous and time-dependent causal …
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policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …
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of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment …
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Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
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