title: Experimental evidence from active placement efforts among unemployed in Sweden.
abstract: This article uses data from a field experiment in Sweden to analyze the effects of active placement efforts. In particular, the relative efficiency between combining job-search monitoring and job-search assistance, and monitoring alone, is analyzed. Although the impact estimates are generally imprecisely estimated, a general conclusion is that placement programs are effective policies in increasing the job exit rate for various groups of unemployed. I find that monitoring of job search is an efficient method to increase off-unemployment exit rate both alone and combined with job-search assistance services. The results, however, indicate that the combined services generate more permanent job exits.
authors.affiliation: Inspektionen för socialförsäkringen, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden pathric.hagglund@sofi.su.se.
authors.forename: Pathric
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hägglund
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods*; D013548:Sweden; D014478:Unemployment
keywords: active labor market policy evaluation; placement efforts; randomized field experiment