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Title: Does Job Search Assistance Really Raise Employment?

Author(s): Lionel Cottier, Yves Flueckiger, PIerre Kempeneers and Rafael Lalive

Publication Date: August 2018

Keyword(s): active labor-market policy, job loss, job placement, job search assistance and long term unemployment

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics and Public Economics

Abstract: We study how job search assistance (JSA) affects employment in a randomized pilot study with long run administrative data. JSA increases employment in the first year after assignment. In the second year, when most job seekers have left JSA, the employment gains evaporate, and even turn into losses in the third year. This sinusoidal pattern is consistent with job finding and employment loss transitions. Job seekers assigned to JSA find employment faster but, once employed, also lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar types of contracts and re-employment earnings, but somewhat worse positions in the firm and are more likely to have a part time job.

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Cottier, L, Flueckiger, Y, Kempeneers, P and Lalive, R. 2018. 'Does Job Search Assistance Really Raise Employment?'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13133