Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110723 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8992
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has been organized according to a voucher-based choice system. In 2013, a performance indicator of job coaching providers was made available at an online website. This study examines to what extent such information affected job coaches' ability to attract participants, as well as how the use of provider ratings varied across different groups of participants. The results indicate that the performance indicator strengthened the positive link between "quality" of services and the number of new participants that signed up with a provider. At the same time, there is evidence showing that more vulnerable groups, such as the less educated and those born outside Europe, do not use the rating values to the same extent as others. It appears that there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a system based on consumer choice.
Subjects: 
public sector
private providers
ALMP
rating
efficiency
equality
JEL: 
H41
J64
J68
J78
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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