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- The efficiency of matching in Portuguese public employment servicePublication . Agovino, Massimiliano; Menezes, António Gomes de; Sciulli, DarioThis paper assesses the matching efficiency of the Portuguese public employment service (PES), applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) combined with principal component analysis (PCA) to Portuguese administrative data and comparing the situations in June 1998 and June 2001. We find evidence that the Portuguese public employment service increased its efficiency potential from 0.54 (June 1998) to 0.65 (June 2001), becoming more efficient and more homogenous. However, employment-centres differ in efficiency and factors affecting efficiency diverge among employment-centres. Policies aimed at improving the efficiency of the matching process should be employment-centre specific. Indeed, we find that some employment-centres could benefit from investing in labour market policies, some from investing in social policies, and others from investing in income support policies. Finally, some employment-centres could benefit from a mix of these socio-economic policies.
- Part-time job and wage penalty trend among italian womenPublication . Sciulli, Dario; Parodi, GiulianaThis paper studies the evolution of full-time/part-time wage differential among Italian women for the period 1993-2004 by adopting an extension of Heckman procedure. For each wave under analysis, we estimate a four-outcome employment status model in the first step, and full-time and part-time wage equations corrected for selectivity in the second step. Our results show a decreasing trend of part-time wage penalty across waves. Using Oaxaca decomposition technique we find that part-time workers are constantly, but in a decreasing way, over-paid according to observable characteristics. This is because, Interestingly, discrimination and selection components (the adjusted differential) take, in turns, similar and opposite values contributing to create an observed overall wage premium.
- The effects of contract-type mismatch and matching frictions on unemployment duration : evidence for PortugalPublication . Sciulli, Dario; Menezes, António Gomes deThis paper analyses the impact of matching frictions in the Portuguese labour market on individual unemployment hazard rates and unemployment durations. The coexistence of permanent contracts and temporary contracts in the Portuguese (dual) labour-market is akin to a matching friction, with a contracttype mismatch between jobseekers who have a strong preference for permanent contracts, whereas firms, in turn, prefer to offer temporary contracts. The paper uses a rich micro dataset which allows to compute a time and space varying contract-type mismatch index, over 85 local labour markets, identified by jobcenters of the Portuguese Public Employment System. Employing discrete time hazard models and a stock-flow matching mechanism, we find that local labour markets with higher contract-type mismatch rates are characterized by lower hazard rates, especially for job-seekers searching for a permanent contract, and higher exit rates via own means instead of via the job-center. Employing a subsample of uncensored spells and regression models, the data show that longer unemployment duration is a price to be paid to hedge against contract mismatch. Improving the desirability of temporary contracts and the information about local contract-type mismatch rates may reduce matching frictions and average unemployment durations due to contract-type mismatch.
- The performance of Portuguese job-centersPublication . Sciulli, Dario; Menezes, António Gomes deThis paper analyzes the performance of the country-wide system of 86 jobcenters in Portugal, which have the public mandate of matching unemployed individuals with vacancies. The paper uses a rich micro dataset for the years 1998-2002 which allows the construction of individual unemployment duration spells and subsequent employment outcomes, while observing individual characteristics such as age, education, gender and past job experiences and other labour-market variables defined at the local-labour market or job-center level. To assess the performance of the job-centers, we analyze unemployment duration spells and hazard rates and matching rates’ indicators between individuals and vacancies at the job-center level. The analysis is mainly done using graphical and statistical tools. Among the several conclusions and policy recommendations, it should be noted that job-centers are a most important resource in promoting the matching of young and unskilled workers and of workers with no previous job experiences.