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Title: Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia

Author(s): Alex Armand, Pedro Carneiro, Federico Tagliati and Yiming Xia

Publication Date: August 2020

Keyword(s): Active Labor Market Policy, job search, unemployment and Wage Subsidies

Programme Area(s): Development Economics and Labour Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of an experiment in North Macedonia in which vulnerable unemployed individuals applying to a subsidized employment program were randomly selected to attend job interviews. Employers hiring a new employee from the target population receive a subsidy covering the wage cost of the worker for the first six months. Using administrative employment data, we find that attending the job interview led to an increase of 15 percentage points in the likelihood of being employed 3.5 years after the start of the intervention. We also find positive and statistically significant effects on individuals' non-cognitive and work-related skills.

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Armand, A, Carneiro, P, Tagliati, F and Xia, Y. 2020. 'Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=15192