Experimental evidence from intensified placement efforts among unemployed in Sweden

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This paper uses experimental data to study the effects of participation in intensified placement efforts on subsequent job chances and earnings. Five small-scale experiments were performed in four different regions of Sweden in 2004 and the control groups were offered the PES regular services. Due to small samples, many of the impact estimates were imprecise and insignificant. However, the services generally reduced unemploy-ment among the treated. I find significantly enhanced exits to either jobs or other acti-vities (or both) in four of the experiments. Three of the experiments also report positive effects on employment probability and earnings in the years following the programme. Finally, combining job-search assistance and monitoring of job search generated signifi-cantly better results than monitoring alone in one of the experiment locations.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2009:16

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Field Experiments ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Subject: Active labour market policy evaluation ; randomised social experiment ; placement efforts ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Arbeitsplatzsuchmodell ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Feldforschung ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hägglund, Pathric
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45780
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