Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

Working Paper Series,
IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

No 2001:10: Public or private job matching for immigrant workers – an outline of a Swedish social experiment

Kenneth Carling, Helge Bennmarker () and Anders Forslund
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Kenneth Carling: IFAU - Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Helge Bennmarker: IFAU - Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Anders Forslund: IFAU - Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract: Evaluations of labour market programs and other related measures typically make use of observational data. This paper presents an outline for producing experimental data in the interest of testing a proposed measure targeted to un-employed immigrant workers. The idea is to offer them placement services provided by a private recruitment company as well as by public employment offices. The assignment of unemployed immigrants to the two providers will be random and the operating conditions kept as similar as possible.

Keywords: Unemployed immigrants; job matching; experiment

JEL-codes: J29; J70

15 pages, August 21, 2001

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