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...

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Published in:Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 50; pp. 667 - 684
Main Author: Thomas, Jonathan M.
Format: Article
Published: Cornell University July 1997
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