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

Crépon, Bruno, Esther Duflo, Marc Gurgand, Philippe Zamora and Roland Rathelot
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Bruno Crépon

No 9251, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: 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 seekers to be assigned to treatment (0%, 25%, 50%, 75% or 100%) were randomly drawn for each of the 235 labor markets (e.g. cities) participating in the experiment. Then, in each labor market, eligible job seekers were randomly assigned to the treatment, following this proportion. After eight months, eligible, unemployed youths who were assigned to the program were significantly more likely to have found a stable job than those who were not. But these gains are transitory, and they appear to have come partly at the expense of eligible workers who did not benefit from the program, particularly in labor markets where they compete mainly with other educated workers, and in weak labor markets. Overall, the program seems to have had very little net benefits.

Keywords: Counseling; Displacement effects; Job placement; Randomized experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-lab and nep-ure
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