Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204480 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 408
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
This paper aims to study the shortcomings and merits of the first experiment of quasi-market in the provision of employment services: the Lombardy DUL (Dote Unica Lavoro). This system, which has inspired the 2015 national reform within the Jobs Act, has reactivated and revitalized the sector by providing important job opportunities to jobless workers. The system has the typical problems of quasi-markets in the provision of public services (lion's share of private organizations; cherry picking; gaming). However, different expedients are devised in the program to minimize these shortcomings. The empirical analysis suggest that such phenomena if existent are at a physiological level. Analysis of the determinants of completing successfully the program provides non-trivial results as to, among others, the role organizations of different ownership type and of services provided.
Subjects: 
Public employment services
Quasi-markets
Cherry-picking
Gaming
Lombardy region
Jobs Act
JEL: 
H44
H52
H76
I38
J68
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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