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Net permanent hiring gains were entirely concentrated among firms with prior agency contact (+0.124 permanent hires of registered jobseekers, p = 0.021; +0.116 quality hires staying off unemployment for >=12 months, p = 0.045), whereas firms without baseline contact experienced no significant hiring impact (-0.005 hires, p = 0.435).
Providing verified skill certificates increased the longest job spell duration by 10% (1.2 months over an 11.8-month control mean, p < 0.10), raised skill utilization on the job by 8.2 percentage points (p < 0.05), and increased conditional earnings by 15% (370.4 ETB, p < 0.05).
Treatment increased permanent contract hires resulting in at least 12 consecutive months off the unemployment register by 14% (+0.046 hires per firm off a control mean of 0.33, p < 0.01), demonstrating a 1-to-1 persistence with total permanent hiring gains.
Firms receiving combined advertising and verification services were 11 percentage points (73 percent) more likely to still employ their online portal hire 6 months post-posting compared to comparison firms.
Combining PES pre-screening with statutory trial periods resulted in a 14% increase in hires who remained off unemployment registers for at least 12 months (0.046 quality hires, p < 0.01), showing that 100% of the net permanent contract hiring increase successfully survived probation.