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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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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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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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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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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation : An Analytic Framework

Autor, David H. - 2008

Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...

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Private Deception and the Rise of Public Employment Offices in the United States, 1890 - 1930

Lee, Woong - 2007

At the turn of the 20th century, state and local governments in the United States began to establish public employment offices. These non-profit governmental organizations match job seekers and businesses, one of their main objectives being to protect job seekers from fraudulent activities by...

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Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of AlmaLaurea on the University-to-Work Transition

Bagues, Manuel F. - 2007

outcomes holds, AlmaLaurea reduces the individual unemployment probability and improves matching quality. Interestingly, we …

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