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...

We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the “Heckit" and of the bounding approach of Lee (2009). As a substitute for the instrument needed in sample selectivity correction models, we use information on the number of attempts that...

This article evaluates the effects of intensive counseling schemes that are providedto about 20% of the unemployed since the 2001 French unemployment policy reform(PARE). Several of the schemes are dedicated at improving the quality of assignmentof workers to jobs. As a result, it is necessary...

Most welfare programs generate high marginal tax rates on labor income.This paper uses a representative sample of individuals on France's mainwelfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or RMI) to estimatemonetary gains to employment for welfare recipients. This is based on thedistribution...

We develop a partial equilibrium stochastic job matching model of the labor market to examine whetherthe counseling of unemployment workers displaces unemployed workers not offered the counseling. Inthis model, the improvement of the reservation utility of counseled job seekers induces them to...