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"L'amélioration des dispositifs d'accompagnement et de placement des chômeurs est un enjeu essentiel des politiques actives du marché du travail. Alors que de nombreux travaux académiques s'intéressent aux effets d'interventions centrées sur les demandeurs d'emploi, cet article se propose d'évaluer des méthodes de travail innovantes visant à accroître l'efficacité des conseillers chargés du placement. Au moyen d'une expérimentation aléatoire sont ainsi testés deux dispositifs distincts. Le premier a pour objectif d'inciter les conseillers à mieux organiser leur temps de travail en leur permettant de concentrer ponctuellement leurs efforts sur un nombre réduit de demandeurs d'emploi. Le second consiste à augmenter les ressources dédiées à la recherche d'offres d'emploi et au positionnement des candidats sur ces offres. Les résultats obtenus montrent que les deux dispositifs peuvent améliorer le taux de sortie du chômage, mais que cet effet positif ne vaut pas pour toutes les populations de demandeurs d'emploi, ce qui soulève la question des effets externes de ce type d'actions."

"Improving counselling and placement schemes for the unemployed is a key element of active labour-market policies. While a number of academic papers have focussed on jobseeker-centred schemes, we here evaluate new innovative methods that aim to improve caseworker efficiency. Two different treatments are evaluated via randomised experiments. The first provides caseworkers with help in the organization of their time, by allowing them to focus on a limited number of jobseekers. The second consists in increasing the human resources that are devoted to collecting job offers and matching them to jobseekers. The results show that both schemes raise the average exit rate out of unemployment, but that this positive effect is not systematic, as it varies with the individual characteristics of the unemployed. This raises the issue of the spillovers that are generated by such schemes."

"This paper implements a method to identify and estimate treatment effects in a dynamic setting where treatments may occur at any point in time. By relating the standard matching approach to the timing-of-events approach, it demonstrates that effects of the treatment on the treated at a given date can be identified even though non-treated may be treated later in time. The approach builds on a "no anticipation" assumption and the assumption of conditional independence between the duration until treatment and the counterfactual durations until exit. To illustrate the approach, the paper studies the effect of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment duration. The contamination of the standard matching estimator due to later entries into treatment is large if the treatment probability is high. "