Tag
active_labor_market_policies
8 findings
Labour & employmentCost-Effective ALMP InterventionsThe job application workshop generated a USD 10 per month earnings increase per worker at a one-off marginal cost of USD 18.20 per person, producing an impact-to-cost ratio that substantially exceeds conventional vocational training and cash transfer programs.RCTLabour & employmentBelief Entrenchment Cost of Search FrictionsThe job fair produced minimal direct hiring (1 hire per 12 attending firms), but the temporary reduction in meeting costs corrected underlying misperceptions, driving a 26% increase in job board visits among jobseekers within 6 weeks and a 12 percentage point increase in professional vacancy advertising by firms (p < 0.01).RCTLabour & employmentCaseworker Quality Mediated EngagementJobseekers assigned to high-quality caseworkers achieved higher baseline human capital investment index scores (9.50 vs -7.33) and received significantly more training proposals in the first quarter (88.3 vs 77.7, p < 0.01) than those assigned to low-quality caseworkers. However, financial transfer treatment effects on actual training completions did not differ significantly between high- and low-quality caseworkers (-1.36 vs +4.85, p > 0.10).RCTLabour & employmentDual-Friction Market Tightness InvarianceThe treatment impact on permanent vacancy creation with pre-screening services was statistically equivalent between low-tightness markets (+0.033) and high-tightness markets (+0.061) with a p-value for equal treatment effect of 0.386.RCTLabour & employmentFirm-Directed Active Labor Market PolicyTreated firms exhibited a 24% increase in permanent contract vacancy postings (0.047 additional vacancies over a 0.199 control mean, p < 0.01) and a 10.2% increase in permanent contract hires of registered jobseekers (0.046 additional hires over 0.450 control mean, p < 0.05), generating 17.5 additional theoretical workdays per firm (p < 0.05).RCTLabour & employmentLabor Market Displacement EffectAt eight months, untreated job seekers in treated communities were 2.1 percentage points less likely to obtain long-term employment than job seekers in communities where no counseling was offered, and in highly competitive job markets, untreated peers experienced a 7.7 percentage point drop in employment relative to pure comparison areas.RCTLabour & employmentAbsence of Stepping-Stone Effect in Temporary EmploymentShort-term employment gains at eight months were driven entirely by job seekers finding fixed-term contracts with zero increase in permanent employment contracts, and all employment advantages vanished completely after twelve months.RCTLabour & employmentUncredentialed Job Fair IneffectivenessUncredentialed job fairs produced zero statistically significant long-term impacts on youth employment or earnings, functioning only to realign biased subjective beliefs regarding workforce market availability.RCT