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Public employment services, employers and the failure of placement of low-skill workers in six European countries
The paper explains why across Europe very few job matches are facilitated by public employment services (PES), looking at the existence of a double-sided asymmetric information problem on the labour market. It is argued that although a PES potentially reduces search costs, both employers and employees have strong incentives not to use the PES. The reason is that employers try to avoid the ‘worst’…
Creator
- Larsen, Christian Albrekt
- Vesan, Patrik
Publisher
- University of Edinburgh, Publication and Dissemination Centre (PUDISCwowe)
Subject
- Economics
- Asymmetric information; employers; job-brokering; low-skill workers; public employment services
- Labor Market Research
- labor administration
- international comparison
- job seeker
- employer
- employment service
- Economics
Type of item
- Arbeitspapier
Creator
- Larsen, Christian Albrekt
- Vesan, Patrik
Publisher
- University of Edinburgh, Publication and Dissemination Centre (PUDISCwowe)
Subject
- Economics
- Asymmetric information; employers; job-brokering; low-skill workers; public employment services
- Labor Market Research
- labor administration
- international comparison
- job seeker
- employer
- employment service
- Economics
Type of item
- Arbeitspapier
Providing institution
Aggregator
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Rights
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Creation date
- 2011
- 2011
Places
- Vereinigtes Königreich, Edinburgh
Provenance
- Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Source
- Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe (REC-WP 02/2011)
Identifier
- oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/22226
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/22226
- urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-222260
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/22226/ssoar-2011-larsen_et_al-public_employment_services.pdf?sequence=1
- http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/LYOERW3ZWKJFEUZRNEMMAGPJNNJMETBI
Extent
- Seite(n): 30
Format
- application/pdf
Language
- eng
- eng
Year
- 2011
Providing country
- Germany
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-01-21T09:51:58.264Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-01-21T09:51:58.264Z