Public Employment Agencies and Unemployment Spells: Reconciling the Experimental and Nonexperimental Evidence

Autor:	Jonathan M. Thomas
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management 0502 economics and business 05 social sciences 050207 economics 050203 business & management
Zdroj:	ILR Review. 50:667-683
ISSN:	2162-271X 0019-7939
DOI:	10.1177/001979399705000407
Popis:	Econometric evidence strongly suggests that unemployed job-seekers who use the services of a Public Employment Agency (PEA) have longer unemployment spells than those choosing alternative search methods. Yet, in some well-designed U.S. experiments, increased use of PEA services has been associated with faster transitions into jobs. The author argues that the nonexperimental studies may be biased toward finding a positive relationship between unemployment spell duration and PEA use because they ignore the possibility that PEAs are chosen by many job-seekers only after other search methods have been tried unsuccessfully and a period of unemployment has elapsed. An analysis of U.K. survey data with information on the timing of PEA use in 1987–88 supports that hypothesis.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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