Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185915 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Citation: 
[Journal:] Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics [ISSN:] 2235-6282 [Volume:] 145 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2009 [Pages:] 221-268
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. The support system was piloted in several employment offices in which, randomly, half of the caseworkers used the system and the other half acted as control group. Caseworkers retained full discretion about the choice of active labour market programmes, and the evaluation results showed that caseworkers largely did not follow the statistical support system. This indicates that stronger incentives are needed for caseworkers to comply with statistical profiling and targeting systems.
Subjects: 
Profiling
active labour market programmes
ALMP
statistical treatment rules
unemployment
public employment services
JEL: 
J68
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Document Type: 
Article

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