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Job Placement and Displacement (2013)
J-PAL policy briefcase; summary of an evaluation · J-PAL Policy Briefcase
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Labor Market Displacement Effect
"Although job seekers who were offered intensive counseling were 2.5 percentage points more likely to be employed in the short run than their peers who lived in the same communities but were not offered counseling, these peers were 2.1 percentage points less likely to have long-term employment than job seekers in areas where intensive counseling was not offered at all."
Pay-for-Performance Counseling and Take-Up Friction
"Only 35 percent of the treatment group actually enrolled in intensive counseling, so the positive impact for those who enrolled was partially offset by displacement effects among those in the treatment group who did not enroll."
Search Acceleration versus Employability Decay
"Individuals in the treatment group found work more quickly than those in the comparison group in the same areas, but these gains disappeared after twelve months."
Absence of Stepping-Stone Effect in Temporary Employment
"Increases in employment were also driven by job seekers who found fixed-term contracts, and there was no increase in permanent employment contracts. However, all employment gains disappeared after 12 months..."
Two-Step Cluster Randomization Design
"The evaluation used a two-step randomization approach: first, randomly assigning the proportion of job seekers who would receive intensive counseling in a given community, and then randomly assigning job seekers in each treated community into the treatment or comparison group."