Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/194363
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA Journal of Labor Policy [ISSN:] 2193-9004 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 15 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 1-24
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
The public employment service (PES) makes use in many countries of vacancy referrals as to facilitate the matching between unemployed workers and vacancies. Based on a 'timing-of-events' approach to control for selective participation, this study evaluates whether this policy instrument enhanced the transition to employment in Flanders (region in northern Belgium). Three referral types are distinguished: (1) referrals actively matched by a caseworker by phone or by e-mail; (2) automatic referrals, in which the match is accomplished by a software without caseworker intervention; and (3) invitations, in which the referral is transmitted to the unemployed in a meeting with a caseworker. All three referral instruments are found to be effective, even many months after the transmission of the referral: the first and third referral types more than triples, respectively, double the transition rate to employment both in short- and long-run, while the automatic referrals enhance this rate by 50% in the first 2 months and double it in the long-run.
Subjects: 
Vacancy referral
Active labor market policy
Evaluation
Timing-of-events method
Unemployed
Transition to employment
JEL: 
C41
J63
J64
J65
J68
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Document Type: 
Article

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