Experimental Evidence From Active Placement Efforts Among Unemployed in Sweden

Pathric Hägglund

Evaluation Review, 2014, vol. 38, issue 3, 191-216

Abstract: This article uses data from a field experiment in Sweden to analyze the effects of active placement efforts. In particular, the relative efficiency between combining job-search monitoring and job-search assistance, and monitoring alone, is analyzed. Although the impact estimates are generally imprecisely estimated, a general conclusion is that placement programs are effective policies in increasing the job exit rate for various groups of unemployed. I find that monitoring of job search is an efficient method to increase off-unemployment exit rate both alone and combined with job-search assistance services. The results, however, indicate that the combined services generate more permanent job exits.

Keywords: active labor market policy evaluation; randomized field experiment; placement efforts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X14551325

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