counseling and job placement for young graduate job seekers in france - helene giacobino
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This seminar will focus on how countries can establish a policy framework to enable effective local action using an evidence-based approach, choosing between different measures when resources are scarce. The latest evidence from OECD countries on ‘what works’ and ‘what doesn’t’ will be considered, with participants sharing their own experiences from their perspectives as policy makers, researchers, practitioners and social entrepreneurs.TRANSCRIPT
Counseling and Job Placement For Young Graduate Job Seekers In France
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Hélène Giacobino
Executive DirectorJ-PAL Europe15/10/2014
1. The Program
Services outsourced to private providers
Targeted at unemployed or underemployed youth under 30, with at least a 2-year college degree
Two Stages:The first stage focused on finding long-term employment (lasting at least six months)
The second focused on stabilizing them in their new job
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Three Main features:
1. A dedicated caseworker, who met job seeker in person at least once a week
2. The caseworker had the responsibility to identify job offers that could fit the profile of the job seekers he worked with
3. Job seekers attended workshops on various aspects of the search process
• 30,000 young, educated job seekers in France
• Two-Stage randomization:
1. Researchers randomly varied proportion of eligible youth who were offered counseling within each community
2. Then, randomly assigned job seekers in each treated community into the treatment or comparison group
• Long term results collected over 2 years
2. The Randomized Evaluation
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How do intensive job counseling services affect employment rates among those who receive counseling and in the overall job market?
• Individuals in the treatment group were 2.5 pp. more likely to have a permanent job but gains disappeared after 12 months
3. Did Job Counseling Work?
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• Job counseling lowered employment rates for comparison group individuals living in treatment areas (displacement effects)
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Other Randomized Evaluations on Youth in Europe:
• Career Mentoring for Secondary Students in France (Actenses)• Collective Counseling for Disadvantaged Job Seekers in France• FRATELI: Innovative Actions to Improve the Integration of Students in
France• Free Medical Consultations for Young Job Seekers in France• Monetary Transfers to Disadvantaged Youth in France (RCA)• Can Active Labor Market Policies Combat Youth Unemployment in
Denmark?• Labor Market Training for the Unemployed in Denmark
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Thank [email protected]
For further reading: Crépon, Bruno, Esther Duflo, Marc Gurgand, Roland Rathelot, and Philippe Zamora. 2013. "Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effect? Evidence From a Clustered Random Experiment." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 128(2): 531-580.
J-PAL Publications, Job Placement and Displacement, http://www.povertyactionlab.org/publication/job-placement-and-displacement