Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon () and Marc Gurgand
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Bruno Crépon: CREST - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique - ENSAI - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information [Bruz] - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - ENSAE Paris - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper reports the results of a large scaled randomized controlled experiment comparing the public and private provision of counseling to job-seekers. The intention-to-treat estimates of both programs are not statistically different, but more workers were enrolled in the private program, implying an effect per beneficiary that is twice as large under the public as under the private program. We find suggestive evidence that the private firms may have insu fficiently mastered the counseling technology, and exercised less effort on those who had the best chance to find a job. This highlights the incentive problems in designing contracts for these services.

Keywords: Job placement; Counseling; Randomized experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09
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Published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (4), 51 p. ⟨10.1257/app.20220184⟩

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DOI: 10.1257/app.20220184

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