PhD Economics/Investigating the effects of job search support programmes

经济学博士/调查求职支持计划的效果

• 批准号: 2109781
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2109781
• 关键词: PhD; Economics; Investigating; effects; job

The French government will be launching a new policy (PIC - Plan d'investissement sur les Compétences") which will dedicate substantial resources to training and counselling programmes targeting unemployed job seekers. This offers the possibility to investigate a range of open research questions that are relevant to policy makers. In particular:- Which training programmes are most effective in helping job seekers exit unemployment and find rewarding jobs? Is the most relevant dimension of heterogeneity on the quality of training programmes, or is it more a question of assignment of the right training to the right job seekers?- How should private training providers be incentivised to propose high-quality training? Because there is little ex-post evaluation of the outcomes of training, there is little feedback on which training should be certified (and bought) by the Public Employment Service.- How should caseworkers be guided to match job seekers to the right training? Public Employment Service caseworkers play an important role in the allocation of the training programmes to unemployed job seekers. The criteria they currently use to decide on the allocation are not very transparent. In particular, they do not seem to use quantitative data of past training spells to inform their decision about the allocation.- What are the general-equilibrium effects of training programmes? Training, like other active labour-market policies might push beneficiaries at the detriment of non-beneficiaries. The extent to which labour demand reacts to better trained job seekers is key to assessing aggregate effects of this policy on unemployment. Yet, there are still even fewer pieces of evidence about general equilibrium effects of training than about micro-effects. The question is key to policy-makers: if training helps individual workers, is it an effective way to fight aggregate unemployment?As the PIC brings new resources to the actors involved in training, there is an opportunity for associate researchers to bring new evidence by launching a set of experimental and non-experimental evaluations. The exact design of the evaluation will depend on discussions with stakeholders (Public Employment Service, training providers, training funders...) but will aim at identifying causal effects, rather than just documenting correlations. Causal identification will be reached either by the design of relevant randomised controlled trials or by quasi-experiments leveraging institutional patterns (discontinuities, natural experiments...).Most of the data used in this project will come from administrative databases relating to training, to counselling and the labour-market situations of job seekers and workers. In some instances, it might be necessary to collect primary data, to shed light on some particular aspect that cannot be looked at using administrative data. Data will be accessed from DARES and, from the UK, using the Centre d'Accès Sécurisé à Distance. We anticipate two kinds of outcomes to this research.- Academic outcome: Answering some of the research questions stated above will contribute to the academic literature about training unemployed workers. The outputs will take the form of working papers and academic publications in top economics outlets.- Impact: The design of the evaluation will be decided in close association with policy makers and stakeholders. These actors will remain engaged through a Steering Committee, organised by DARES, which will follow the progress of evaluations and take stock of preliminary results. This continuous engagement will improve the chances for the results of the research to be considered in future revisions of training policies. In order to help disseminate the results, DARES will organise an impact-enhancing workshop bringing academics and policy-makers together.

法国政府将推出一项新政策（PIC ----“就业投资计划”），将投入大量资源，用于针对失业求职者的培训和咨询方案。这提供了一种可能性，调查一系列开放的研究问题，是相关的政策制定者。特别是：哪些培训方案在帮助求职者摆脱失业和找到有价值的工作方面最有效？最相关的异质性方面是培训方案的质量，还是更重要的是将正确的培训分配给正确的求职者？如何激励私营培训机构提供高质量的培训？由于很少对培训结果进行事后评估，因此很少有关于哪些培训应该由公共就业服务局认证（和购买）的反馈。应如何指导个案工作者为求职者提供合适的培训？公共就业服务处的个案工作者在向失业求职者分配培训方案方面发挥着重要作用。他们目前用来决定分配的标准不是很透明。特别是，他们似乎没有使用过去训练咒语的定量数据来告知他们关于分配的决定。培训方案的一般均衡效应是什么？培训与其他积极的劳动力市场政策一样，可能会推动受益者，损害非受益者。劳动力需求对受过更好培训的求职者的反应程度是评估这项政策对失业的总体影响的关键。然而，关于培训的一般均衡效应的证据仍然比关于微观效应的证据更少。这个问题对政策制定者来说是关键：如果培训对工人个人有帮助，那么它是对抗总体失业的有效方法吗？由于PIC为参与培训的行为者带来了新的资源，因此助理研究人员有机会通过启动一系列实验和非实验评估来带来新的证据。评估的确切设计将取决于与利益攸关方（公共就业服务局、培训提供者、培训资助者.）的讨论。但其目标是确定因果效应，而不仅仅是记录相关性。通过设计相关随机对照试验或利用机构模式（不连续性、自然实验......）的准实验，将达到因果关系识别。该项目使用的大部分数据将来自与培训、咨询和求职者和工人的劳动力市场状况有关的行政数据库。在某些情况下，可能有必要收集原始数据，以说明无法使用行政数据查看的某些特定方面。数据将从数据检索系统获取，并从联合王国使用远程安全访问中心获取。我们预计这项研究会有两种结果。学术成果：回答上述一些研究问题将有助于有关失业工人培训的学术文献。产出将采取工作文件和学术出版物的形式在顶级经济网点。影响：评价的设计将与决策者和利益攸关方密切合作决定。这些行为者将通过由评估和评价系统组织的指导委员会继续参与，该委员会将跟踪评估的进展情况，并对初步结果进行评估。这种持续参与将增加研究结果在今后修订培训政策时得到考虑的机会。为了帮助传播结果，DARES将组织一个提高影响力的研讨会，将学术界和政策制定者聚集在一起。