Artikel
Effects of face-to-face counselling on unemployment rate and duration: evidence from a Public Employment Service reform
In a Public Employment Service reform implemented in 2013, sixty Finnish municipalities experienced an involuntary employment office closure. The Government's objective was to replace traditional face-to-face employment counselling with modern online counselling and simultaneously generate savings in outlays. The reform created natural experiment circumstances that allowed us to estimate the aggregate causal effects of face-to-face counselling and advice. We estimated the effects of the reform on the unemployment rate and the average unemployment duration using municipality-level panel data and various panel data estimators. We found that while the reform had a barely discernible effect on municipal unemployment rates, it increased average unemployment durations by 2-3 weeks. Hence, face-to-face counselling and online counselling are not perfect substitutes in decreasing the length of unemployment spells. Consequently, the fiscal costs of the reform outweigh the fiscal benefits by a large margin.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Journal for Labour Market Research ; ISSN: 2510-5027 ; Volume: 54 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-14 ; Heidelberg: Springer
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
- Thema
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Counselling
Reform
Unemployment
Microdata
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Vehkasalo, Ville
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer
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Heidelberg
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.1186/s12651-020-00276-8
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Vehkasalo, Ville
- Springer
Entstanden
- 2020
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