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Long-Term Effects of Job-Search Assistance : Experimental Evidence Using Administrative Tax Data

Manoli, Dayanand S. - 2018

unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to undergo an eligibility review and receive personalized job-counseling services. The program …

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Advising Job Seekers in Occupations with Poor Prospects : A Field Experiment

Belot, Michèle; Koning, Bart K. de; Fouarge, Didier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We study the impact of online information provision to unemployed job seekers who are looking for work in occupations in slack markets, i.e. with only few vacancies per job seeker. Job seekers received suggestions about suitable alternative occupations, and how the prospects of these...

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What Works for the Unemployed? Evidence From Quasi-Random Caseworker Assignments

Humlum, Anders; Munch, Jakob Roland; Rasmussen, Mette - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

similar job seekers to different programs. Using our IV strategy, we find assignment to classroom training increases … by job seekers who complete the programs (post-program effects) rather than job seekers who exit unemployment upon … training. By estimating marginal treatment effects, we conclude that total employment may be increased by targeting training …

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Active Labour Market Policies and the British New Deal for the Young Unemployed in Context

Van Reenen, John - 2003

The British New Deal for Young People began in January 1998. After 6 months of unemployment, 18-24 year olds are … involve full-time education and training, government-provided employment ( environmental task force') or voluntary work. In …

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The collapse of a medical clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)

McKinney, C. Nicholas - 2003

The collapse of the clearinghouse for the entry-level gastroenterology labor market offers a unique opportunity to study how stable clearinghouses succeed and fail. To explore the reasons for the failure of the clearinghouse (and why failures of this kind of clearinghouse have been so rare), we...

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Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers

Dube, Arindrajit - 2018

We show that administrative hourly wage data exhibits considerable bunching at round numbers that cannot be explained by rounding of survey respondents. We consider two explanations--worker left-digit bias and employer optimization frictions. We experimentally rule out left-bunching by...

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Making Summer Matter : The Impact of Youth Employment on Academic Performance

Schwartz, Amy Ellen - 2015

Holding a summer job is a rite of passage in American adolescence, a first rung towards adulthood and self-sufficiency. Summer youth employment has the potential to benefit high school students' educational outcomes and employment trajectories, especially for low-income youth. This paper...

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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines

Beam, Emily - 2014

Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration. However, their effectiveness is unknown. We conducted a large-scale randomized experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of...

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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

Crépon, Bruno - 2012

This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...

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The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings : An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach

Autor, David H. - 2012

Federal and state employment programs for low-skilled workers typically emphasize rapid placement of participants into jobs and often place a large fraction of participants into temporary-help agency jobs. Using unique administrative data from Detroit's welfare-to-work program, we apply the...

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