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Rebond pour les étudiants décrocheurs de l'enseignement supérieur (AFIJ)

Pierre Cahuc
Bruno Crépon
Florent Fremigacci
Philippe Zamora
Jobs seekers talk with employers at a job fair table.

Providing Job Search Information to Improve Job Seekers' Employment and Earnings in Germany

Steffen Altmann
Armin Falk
Simon Jaeger
Florian Zimmermann
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing recently unemployed individuals informational brochures about job search strategies that motivated an active search on their labor market outcomes. Providing informational brochures improved the employment and earnings of...

Éviter les accidents domestiques des personnes âgées, en France

Simon Beck
Bruno Crépon
Lucile Romanello
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RCA: un programme de transferts monétaires vers des jeunes défavorisés, en France

Romain Aeberhardt
Vera Chiodi
Bruno Crépon
Mathilde Gaini
Léopold Gilles
Nelly Guisse
Augustin Vicard
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Club recherche d'emploi: accompagnement collectif pour les jeunes défavorisés à la recherche d'emploi, en France

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Les politiques actives de l'emploi ont-elles un impact sur le chômage des jeunes, au Danemark?

Jonas Maibom
Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer

Providing Information about Job Seekers' Skills to Increase Employment Outcomes in South Africa

Eliana Carranza
Robert Garlick
Kate Orkin
Neil Rankin
In South Africa, researchers partnered with Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator to evaluate the impact of providing information about a job seeker’s skills on job seekers’ beliefs, search effort, and employment outcomes. Providing information to job seekers and prospective employers increased...
A gloved hand holds a blue ORCA transit card in front of a bus stop where a bus is parked.

Can Transportation Subsidies Reduce Failures to Appear in Criminal Court?

Rebecca Brough
Matthew Freedman
Daniel E. Ho
David Phillips
Researchers partnered with local agencies in King County, Washington to evaluate the impact of providing transit subsidies on rates of FTA in court. While the study was disrupted due to Covid-19, the pilot results indicated that transit subsidies had little effect on reducing FTA.