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could find employment and thus accumulate work experience …
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This paper uses a social experiment in labour market policy - providing early and intensive monitoring and programme participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in two counties in Denmark during the winter of...
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...
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This paper compares the effectiveness of public and private providers of employment services. Reporting from a … randomized field experiment conducted in Denmark we assess empirically the case for contracting out employment services for a …, that private providers deliver more intense, employment-oriented, and earlier services. Second, public and private …
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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
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