Effectiveness of a job vacancy referral scheme

Abstract ᅟ The public employment service (PES) makes use in many countries of vacancy referrals as to facilitate the matching between unemployed workers and vacancies. Based on a “timing-of-events” approach to control for selective participation, this study evaluates whether this policy instrument e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joost Bollens, Bart Cockx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-12-01
Series:IZA Journal of Labor Policy
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40173-017-0094-0