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JOB CENTERS: ARE FINDERS KEEPERS? A NOTE FROM JAPAN
Author(s) -
FUESS SCOTT M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2009.00168.x
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , government (linguistics) , work (physics) , business , labour economics , marketing , demographic economics , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , chemistry , crystallography
Do job centers help unemployed people to find and keep jobs? Using the results of a unique survey by the Japanese government, this note examines the employment success of job center clients. Success in finding and keeping jobs varies systematically across distinct subgroups. Moreover, job center clients were not particularly successful in finding work that fit their qualifications. ( JEL J60, J68, J40)