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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Behaghel, Luc | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Crépon, Bruno | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Gurgand, Marc | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-05-23 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-06-15T07:45:04Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2012-06-15T07:45:04Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2012 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.pi | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201208096362 | | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58591 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | 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 job-search intensive counseling. The impact of each program is assessed with respect to the standard, low intensity track offered by the PES to the unemployed. We find that job-search assistance increases exit rates to employment by 15 to 35%. But the impact of the public program is about twice as large as compared to the private program, at least during the 6 first months after random assignment. We argue that the observed contract structure with the private providers has not overcome the underlying agency problem. We find no evidence of cream-skimming: rather, it seems that profit maximizing private providers have found it optimal to enroll as many job-seekers as they could, but to make minimum effort on the placement of some of them. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | IZA Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6518 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J64 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J68 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | H44 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | unemployment | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | job-search assistance | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | labor market intermediaries | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | private provision of public services | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Arbeitsvermittlung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Personalberatung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Vergleich | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Arbeitslosigkeit | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Arbeitsuche | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Frankreich | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Private and public provision of counseling to job-seekers: Evidence from a large controlled experiment | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 715992775 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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