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Can public employment services improve employment opportunities of rural-to-urban migrant workers in China?

Applied Economics Letters, 2023
This paper explores the impact of public employment services (PES) on the employment opportunities of rural-to-urban migrant workers in China from 2015 to 2020.
Lilian Li, Mingwang Cheng, Kaifeng Duan, Wenshun Li, Dandan Zhao   +4 more
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Algorithmic Tools in Public Employment Services: Towards a Jobseeker-Centric Perspective

Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, 2022
Data-driven and algorithmic systems have been introduced to support Public Employment Services (PES) throughout the world. Their deployment has sparked public controversy and, as a consequence, some of these systems have been removed from use or their ...
Kristen M. Scott, Sonja Mei Wang, Milagros Miceli, Pieter Delobelle, Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska, Bettina Berendt   +5 more
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Public employment

Government at a Glance, 2021
Counties are committed to an employment system that provides public employees with protection against arbitrary and capricious loss of jobs, unfair hiring practices, and preferential promotions or job assignments that are not merit based.

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Connecting Employers and Workers: Can Recommendations from the Public Employment Service Act as a Substitute for Social Contacts?

Work, Employment and Society, 2020
This article investigates how employers value recommendations from the public employment service (PES) compared to recommendations from a social contact for their hiring decision.
Fabienne Liechti
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Life after public employment retrenchment: evidence from Italian municipalities

Journal of Economic Geography, 2020
We investigate the interaction between public and private employment at the local level. In contrast to previous literature, which has mainly examined public sector expansions, we provide evidence about the impact of downsizing. Using data from Italian
M. Auricchio, Emanuele Ciani, A. Dalmazzo, Guido Blasio   +3 more
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Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program

Economic development and cultural change, 2023
Most countries implement safety net programs for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs, but they could also affect workers’ job choice. This paper analyzes the first-year employment impacts of the world’
Laura V. Zimmermann
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A Balance of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship Practices—The Renewal Journey of the Swedish Public Employment Service

Financial Accountability and Management, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to study the first phase—from 2014 to 2016—of the Swedish Public Employment Service's renewal journey by examining how the agency worked to achieve its new strategy thr ...
Linda Höglund, Mikael Holmgren Caicedo, M. Mårtensson   +2 more
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Public Sector Employment

2017
Public sector testing has evolved over the past two centuries in terms of test content and test format. Public sector employment covers a very wide range of jobs and thus requires use of correspondingly wide range of assessment tools. Position classification invariably results in a class specification document that at the very least provides a starting
Rick Jacobs, Donna L. Denning
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Public Employment or Public Pillory?

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1948
Mr. Lilienthal affirms his belief in the ability of the American people to evaluate justly recent investigations into alleged “Un-American” activities of scientists, tie finds in this belief the answer to the doubts of those scientists who feel that government employment may entail unwarranted defamation. We give here the full text of Mr.
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