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| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
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| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After This paper examines the impact of an experiment in North Macedonia in which vulnerable unemployed individuals applying to a subsidized employment program and being matched to a job opening are randomly selected to attend job interviews. Employers receive a subsidy which reduced by half the wage cost of a newly hired worker during the first year and compensated the firm for the training costs. We complement administrative employment records with survey data to study treatment impacts. Attending the job interview leads to an increase of 15 percentage points in the likelihood of being employed 3.5 years after the start of the intervention. Obtaining a job under the program results in a much larger effect of 50 percentage points. These long-term effects are larger for individuals with lower attachment to the labor market. Among these, we document positive treatment effects on both non-cognitive and job-related skills. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Armand A, P Carneiro, F Tagliati and Y Xia (2020), ‘DP15192 Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 15192. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp15192 |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://cepr.org/publications/dp15192 |