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Private and public provision of counseling to job-seekers : evidence from a large controlled experiment
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Gurgand, Marc - 2012
to make minimum effort on the placement of some of them. -- unemployment ; job-search assistance ; labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537276
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Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Gurgand, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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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Are public or private providers of employment services more effective? : evidence from a randomized experiment
Rehwald, Kai; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2015
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 well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346599
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376305
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Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers : Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment
Behaghel, Luc - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106949
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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed. Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep it Public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388250
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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed: Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep It Public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401728
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Are Public or Private Providers of Employment Services More Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Rehwald, Kai; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2015
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 well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401633
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Are Public or Private Providers of Employment Services More Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Rehwald, Kai - 2015
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 well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014033
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Counseling the unemployed : does it lower unemployment duration and recurrence?
Crépon, Bruno (contributor); Dejemeppe, Muriel (contributor) - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003260806