Unemployment and employment offices’ efficiency: What can be done?

Vassiliev, Anatoli; Luzzi, Giovanni; Flückiger, Yves; Ramirez, José V.

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2004.10.007

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“…This implies that traditional production functions which do not account for technical inefficiencies are inadequate for modelling the job placement process. Ernst & Young, 1999;Sheldon, 2003;Vassiliev et al, 2006). The estimated mean technical efficiency score of 0.840 for the first model shows that in average, employment offices generate 84.0% of the potential number of hires, given their inputs usage and exogenous conditions.…”

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An Efficiency Comparison of Regional Employment Offices Operating under Different Exogenous Conditions

Ramirez

Vassiliev

2006

SSRN Journal

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Section: Data and Model Specificationmentioning

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An Efficiency Comparison of Regional Employment Offices Operating under Different Exogenous Conditions

Ramirez

Vassiliev

2006

SSRN Journal

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“…Very few PES monitor effectiveness directly (or at least openly), perhaps because such measurement has its own problems. Among the few studies embarking on direct effectiveness measurement, we find Vassiliev et al (2006) and Ramirez and Vassiliev (2006). Both use a form of production frontier methods to identify offices falling below the expected effectiveness threshold, and interpret finding offices below this as those potentially able to increase their output given their inputs.…”

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Can the modernisation of a public employment service be an effective labour market intervention? The Hungarian experience, 2004-2008

Cseres-Gergely

2012

Eur J Gov Econ

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The Public Employment Service often delivers much of the employment policy including active labour market programmes in many member states in the EU, yet we know little about its effectiveness in general. This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the potential impact of the modernisation programme of the Hungarian Public Employment service between 2004 and 2008. Using data at the level of local offices, I calculate programme effects using a difference-in-difference estimator. Results show that the programme has increased re-employment rates significantly, by 6%. The modernisation was thus a moderately effective but relatively inexpensive intervention, similar in terms of cost-effectiveness to the better active labour market programmes in Hungary.

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“…size, turnover, properties of the neighbourehooding regions). Vassiliev, Ferro Luzzi, Fluckiger and Ramirez (2006) apply Data Envelopment Analysis to Swiss data instead of the stochastic production frontier, but the approach is virtually the same.…”

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(In)Efficiency of matching: the case of a post-transition economy

Tyrowicz

Jeruzalski

2012

Econ Change Restruct

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This paper approaches the question of efficiency in job placement using regional data for Polish regions (policy relevant NUTS 4 level) over the time span of 2000-2008. Using a unique data set we estimate the matching function using stochastic frontier as well as difference-in-difference estimators. We use also managed to combine this unique data set with another unique source of data on the ALMPs coverage, unemployment structure across time and regions as well as the individual capacity of local labour offices.We use these data to explain the exceptional variation in estimated efficiency scores.Our findings suggest that matching abilities are highly driven by demand fluctuations, while unemployment structure, ALMPs and individual labour office capacities have little explanatory power. Although without individual data it is fairly impossible to provide a reliable counterfactual, we raise some arguments to support the claim of job placement inefficiency by public employment services in Poland.JEL Codes: P3, J64, J69, C33

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Unemployment and employment offices’ efficiency: What can be done?

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

An Efficiency Comparison of Regional Employment Offices Operating under Different Exogenous Conditions

An Efficiency Comparison of Regional Employment Offices Operating under Different Exogenous Conditions

Can the modernisation of a public employment service be an effective labour market intervention? The Hungarian experience, 2004-2008

(In)Efficiency of matching: the case of a post-transition economy

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