Evaluating Public-Private Partnerships in Employment Services: The Case of the UK Work Programme
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Keywords
Public employment services; job search; public policy evaluation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2018-02-12 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LMA-2018-02-12 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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