This paper uses a high quality administrative longitudinal dataset to assess the impact of an active labour market intervention consisting of referral for interview plus job search assistance with the public employment service in the Republic of Ireland. During the period of the interventions, both job search monitoring and sanctions were virtually non-existent in the country. We found that, relative to a control group that received no public employment service assistance, unemployed individuals that received the interview letter and participated in job search assistance were 11.2 percentage points less likely to have exited to employment prior to 12 months. This result holds when tested against the influences of both sample selection and unobserved heterogeneity bias. The negative treatment impact is attributed to individuals lowering their job search intensity on learning through the activation interview of the lax nature of the activation process in Ireland at that time. The research finds job search assistance being less effective unless combined with other key aspects of the activation process, such as regular job search monitoring and sanctions for non-compliance.

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Carrots, No Stick, No Driver：在监控和制裁最少的制度中求职援助对就业的影响

本文使用高质量的行政纵向数据集来评估积极劳动力市场干预的影响，该干预包括转介面试和爱尔兰共和国公共就业服务的求职援助。在干预期间，该国几乎不存在求职监测和制裁。我们发现，相对于未接受公共就业服务援助的对照组，收到面试信并参与求职援助的失业人员在 12 个月前离职的可能性要低 11.2 个百分点。当针对样本选择和未观察到的异质性偏差的影响进行测试时，该结果成立。负面处理影响归因于个人通过当时爱尔兰激活过程的松散性质的激活面试降低了他们在学习上的求职强度。研究发现，除非与激活过程的其他关键方面相结合，例如定期的求职监控和对违规行为的制裁，否则求职援助的效果会降低。