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The stealth legitimisation of a controversial policy tool Statistical profiling in French Public Employment Service (PES)

Alizée Delpierre
Fatihi Hajar El
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Statistical profiling algorithms claiming to predict which jobseekers are at risk of becoming long-term unemployed are spread unevenly across countries. However, the pathways and histories of these tools are understudied. Because the profiling path in France is a winding one, it is fruitful to study the production of profiling acceptability within the Public Employment Service (PES), and upstream of its reception by frontline advisers. Using a mix of interviews and written sources, we show that the production of profiling acceptability sits at the crossroads of two processes: technical and political transformations of the instrument itself and broader institutional and managerial transformations of the PES. On the basis of this case study, the paper enriches our understanding of the slow and incremental rationalisation of public services that we have termed 'professional rationalisation'. We argue that, far from being a softened or moderated form of bureaucratic rationalisation, it is powerful-perhaps even irreversibleprecisely because it transforms its target (frontline advisers) before the rationalisation instrument is even deployed.
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halshs-04356516, version 1 (20-12-2023)

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Didier Demazière, Alizée Delpierre, Fatihi Hajar El. The stealth legitimisation of a controversial policy tool Statistical profiling in French Public Employment Service (PES). Regulation & Governance, 2023, ⟨10.1111/rego.12541⟩. ⟨halshs-04356516⟩
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