scholarly journals Do Labor Market Policies have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment *

2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Crépon ◽  
Esther Duflo ◽  
Marc Gurgand ◽  
Roland Rathelot ◽  
Philippe Zamora
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Job Placement ◽  
Randomized Experiment ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Labor Market Policies ◽  
Net Benefits ◽  
Displacement Effects

Abstract 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.

Immigration and Labor Market Outcomes in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 630-652
Author(s):  
Allen Hyde ◽  
Michael Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
The United States ◽  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship

Two broad orientations have motivated scholarship on the relationship between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States. The first, the supply-side perspective, often focuses on how immigration affects a variety of outcomes such as unemployment, casualization, and earnings inequality. The second, the demand-side perspective, generally contends that these labor market outcomes result mainly from economic restructuring that subsequently attracts immigrants to labor markets. Previous studies have often reached divergent conclusions due to differing assumptions about the direction of causality in these relationships. In this paper, we use three-stage least squares regression, a technique that allows for nonrecursive relationships, to adjudicate the direction of causality between immigration and labor market outcomes. Using 2010 data for 366 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas, we find support for the demand-side perspective, or that economic restructuring results in higher unemployment, casualization, and earnings inequality, which subsequently increases levels of immigration in metropolitan labor markets.

scholarly journals Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Crepon ◽  
Esther Duflo ◽  
Marc Gurgand ◽  
Roland Rathelot ◽  
Philippe Zamora
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Randomized Experiment ◽  
Labor Market Policies ◽  
Displacement Effects

Gender and Labor Markets in Tunisia’s Lagging Regions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Hanmer ◽  
Edinaldo Tebaldi ◽  
Dorte Verner
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Wage Discrimination ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Central Regions

There are significant differences in labor market outcomes by gender in Tunisia. These gender differences differ substantially in the richer coastal and eastern regions and the poorer southern and western regions. This chapter uses the 2014 Tunisia Labor Market Panel Survey (TLMPS) to examine the characteristics of male and female labor market participants in the lagging southern, western, and central regions, and in the leading regions. The chapter also discusses results from an econometric analysis of the factors that influence monthly wages and the probability of employment for men and women respectively. Our results show that gender plays a huge role in labor market outcomes: women are less likely to participate in the labor force, are more likely to be unemployed, and receive lower wages. In addition, youth and educated women in lagging regions are particularly disadvantaged because they are less likely to find a job and may not have the option of moving to places where employment prospects are better. Moreover, our results suggest that wage discrimination against women is prevalent outside the leading region in Tunisia.

scholarly journals Order from Chaos? The Effects of Early Labor Market Experiences on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosella Gardecki ◽  
David Neumark
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Work Transition ◽  
Stable Employment

This paper examines the consequences of initial periods of “churning” or “mobility” in the labor market, to help assess whether faster transitions to stable employment relationships—as envisioned by advocates of school-to-work programs—would be likely to lead to better adult labor market outcomes. An analysis of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data for the years 1979–92 yields modest evidence, at best, linking early job market stability to better labor market outcomes. The authors find that for both genders, adult labor market outcomes (defined as of the late 20s or early to mid-30s) are for the most part unrelated to early labor market experiences. This evidence does not support efforts to explicitly target the school-to-work transition, insofar as doing so implies changing the structure of youth labor markets so that workers form earlier and firmer attachments to employers, industries, or occupations.

scholarly journals Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Crépon ◽  
Esther Duflo ◽  
Marc Gurgand ◽  
Roland Rathelot ◽  
Philippe Zamora
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Randomized Experiment ◽  
Labor Market Policies ◽  
Displacement Effects

scholarly journals Not everyone is engaged: an innovative approach to measure engagement levels on the labor market

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Chartouni ◽  
Robert Holzmann ◽  
Gustavo N. Paez
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Market Survey ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Policy Interventions

AbstractIn this paper, we analyze the Individuals’ level of engagement on the labor market and the engagement heterogeneity across individuals in matters of labor market outcomes and the effectiveness of policy interventions. Emerging economies with highly segmented and distorted labor markets typically exhibit strong heterogeneity in labor market engagement. This paper develops an innovative index that measures individuals’ labor market engagement across three dimensions (preferences, intensity, and barriers) and across three labor market categories (employed, unemployed, and out-of-labor force) based on a recent special labor market survey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Clustering individuals with similar engagement levels permit more effective targeting of labor market interventions. Findings confirm the strong heterogeneity of labor market engagement in the KSA and the index’s usefulness in the construction of differentiated policies across these clusters.

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