TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Rehwald, Kai
AU  - Rosholm, Michael
AU  - Svarer, Michael
        TI  - Are Public or Private Providers of Employment Services More Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
        PY  - 2015/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9365
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9365
        AB  - This paper compares the effectiveness of public and private providers of employment services. Reporting from a randomized field experiment conducted in Denmark we assess empirically the case for contracting out employment services for a well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers (unemployed holding a university degree). Our findings suggest, first, that private providers deliver more intense, employment-oriented, and earlier services. Second, public and private provision of employment services are equally effective regarding subsequent labour market outcomes. And third, the two competing service delivery systems appear to be equally costly from a public spending perspective.
        KW  - active labour market policies
KW  - job-search assistance
KW  - contracting out
KW  - private provision of employment services
KW  - treatment effect evaluation
KW  - randomized trial
KW  - cost-analysis
        ER  -