title: The employment service and vacancy durations.
abstract: In the literature, there are few examples of studies analyzing the impact of labor market programs on vacancies. This article presents the results of a study of the impact of personnel increase at Swedish employment offices on vacancy durations. The evaluation method in the study is quasi-experimental. The main results of the study are as follows: (a) The increase of employment office staff members reduced their vacancy durations by approximately 2 days, and the probability that a vacancy is cancelled from the register is 1.17 times higher for the program offices; and (b) this effect is too small for the increase of staff members to represent a socially efficient use of resources and for a positive outcome in a public finance context.
authors.affiliation: Center for Labor Market Policy Research, Växjö University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Behrenz
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004651:Employment; D006078:Government Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013548:Sweden; D014830:Vocational Guidance