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Public or Private? Job Counseling in France (2015)
J-PAL policy briefcase; summary of an evaluation · J-PAL Policy Briefcase
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Contract Incentive Distortion in Outsourced Placement Services
"Private firms received a large payment conditional on job placement, so in order to maximize their gains, they may have found it efficient to focus their effort on less employable candidates, relying on the better candidates to find jobs by themselves."
Fiscal Return on Active Labor Market Policies
"Researchers estimate that the private program increased total net expenses per enrolled job seeker by approximately €1,162. The public intensive program reduced net costs to the government per job seeker slightly, but the difference was not statistically significant."
Long-Term Job Retention Matching in Counseling Programs
"The public intensive program increased the likelihood of finding a job lasting at least six months by the end of the counseling period by 34 percent a 7.2 percentage point increase compared to the counterfactual situation."
Private Contractor Job Placement Counseling
"Researchers estimate that the private program increased total net expenses per enrolled job seeker by approximately €1,162."
Public Intensive Job Search Counseling
"Within six months, the public intensive program increased the probability of exiting unemployment and finding a job by 50 percent (a 10.2 percentage point increase from a base of 20.7 percent)."
Sanction Enforcement Asymmetry in Social Service Outsourcing
"Sanctions to inactive job seekers, including temporary or permanent removal from the unemployment list, were also applied less frequently for candidates enrolled in the private program, which may have had an impact on the candidates' efforts to find jobs."