Do Labor Market Policies have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
Bruno Crépon
(1)
,
Esther Duflo
(2)
,
Marc Gurgand
(1, 3, 4)
,
Roland Rathelot
(1)
,
Philippe Zamora
(1)
Résumé
This article reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job seekers to be assigned to treatment (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100%) were randomly drawn for each of the 235 labor markets (e.g., cities) participating in the experiment. Then, in each labor market, eligible job seekers were randomly assigned to the treatment, following this proportion. After eight months, eligible, unemployed youths who were assigned to the program were significantly more likely to have found a stable job than those who were not. But these gains are transitory, and they appear to have come partly at the expense of eligible workers who did not benefit from the program, particularly in labor markets where they compete mainly with other educated workers, and in weak labor markets. Overall, the program seems to have had very little net benefits.
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Economies et financesFormat du dépôt | Notice |
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Type de dépôt | Article dans une revue |
Titre |
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Do Labor Market Policies have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
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Résumé |
en
This article reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job seekers to be assigned to treatment (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100%) were randomly drawn for each of the 235 labor markets (e.g., cities) participating in the experiment. Then, in each labor market, eligible job seekers were randomly assigned to the treatment, following this proportion. After eight months, eligible, unemployed youths who were assigned to the program were significantly more likely to have found a stable job than those who were not. But these gains are transitory, and they appear to have come partly at the expense of eligible workers who did not benefit from the program, particularly in labor markets where they compete mainly with other educated workers, and in weak labor markets. Overall, the program seems to have had very little net benefits.
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Auteur(s) |
Bruno Crépon
1
, Esther Duflo
2
, Marc Gurgand
1, 3, 4
, Roland Rathelot
1
, Philippe Zamora
1
1
CREST -
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique
( 2579 )
- 5, Avenue Henry Le Chatelier, 91120 Palaiseau
- France
2
MIT -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
( 301950 )
- 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
- États-Unis
3
PSE -
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 139754 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
4
PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Nom de la revue |
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Audience |
Non spécifiée
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Date de publication |
2013-06
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Volume |
128
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Numéro |
2
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Page/Identifiant |
531-580
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Domaine(s) |
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Financement |
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Projet(s) ANR |
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Mots-clés |
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Job placement assistance, Labor market
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DOI | 10.1093/qje/qjt001 |
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