Public employment agencies and unemployment spells: reconciling the experimental and nonexperimental evidence.
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 w...
| Published in: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 50; pp. 667 - 684 |
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Cornell University
July 1997
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