Short and long term evaluations of Public Employment Services in Italy

In the last decade the European Employment Strategy strongly recommended reforms of active labour market policies, reforms that have generated a spread of evaluation exercises for most of European countries. This paper fills the gap in the literature concerning the Italian case, assessing the efficacy of Public Employment Services (PESs) -after the reforms of 1997, 2000, 2003- in increasing the unemployment to employment transition probabilities, through matching techniques. Exploiting the longitudinal dimension of the Labour Force Survey data we design an evaluation structure that allows observing outcomes in both the short (at most 3 months) and the long run (at most 12 and 15 months). In this framework, PES users show a lower probability of finding a job in the short term, because of a lock-in effect, while in the long term this probability turns out to be positive. We also show that PES effects in the long term are much less pronounced when considering as outcome variable the probability of finding a permanent job, a proxy for the quality of the job, suggesting that PES impacts are to a large extent driven by the use of temporary contracts. Furthermore, to deal with issues related to selection on unobservables we carry out two different sensitivity analysis, which confirm our baseline findings.Public Employment Services, Active Labour Market Policies, European Employment Strategy, Matching, Policy Evaluation

Short and long term evaluations of Public Employment Services in Italy

In this paper we evaluate the efficacy of Public Employment Services in Italy (PESs) in increasing the unemployment to employment transition probabilities, through matching techniques. Exploiting the longitudinal dimension of the LFS data we design an evaluation structure that allows observing outcomes in both the short (at most 3 months) and the long run (at most 12 and 15 months). In this framework, PES users show a lower probability of finding a job in the short term, because of a lock-in effect, while in the long term this probability turns out to be positive. Similar results are derived when considering as outcome a proxy for the quality of the job, i.e. having found a permanent job. Robustness checks and sensitivity analysis confirm this evidence, suggesting also that our estimates are to be considered as lower bound in the eventuality of unobserved negative selection into treatment.Public Employment Services, Active Labour Market Policies, Propensity Score Matching, European Employment Startegy, Policy Evaluation, Italy

New amide derivatives of quinoxaline 1,4-di-N-oxide with leishmanicidal and antiplasmodial activities

ABSTARCT: Malaria and leishmaniasis are two of the World’s most important tropical parasitic diseases. Continuing with our efforts to identify new compounds active against malaria and leishmaniasis, twelve new 1,4-di-N-oxide quinoxaline derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro antimalarial and antileishmanial activity against Plasmodium falciparum FCR-3 strain, Leishmania infantum and Leishmania amazonensis. Their toxicity against VERO cells (normal monkey kidney cells) was also assessed. The results obtained indicate that a cyclopentyl derivative had the best antiplasmodial activity (2.9 µM), while a cyclohexyl derivative (2.5 µM) showed the best activity against L. amazonensis, and a 3-chloropropyl derivative (0.7 µM) showed the best results against L. infantum. All these compounds also have a Cl substituent in the R7 positio

Morphologies

Séminaire commun avec la participation de : Olivier Abel, Luciano Boi, Jean-Claude Bonne, Marion Carel, Giovanni Careri, Enrico Castelli Gattinara, Patrice Ceccarini, Ryozo Hiyama, Georges Didi-Huberman, Maurizio Gribaudi, Bernard Jaulin, Gérard Jorland, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Hervé Le Bras, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Silvia Mancini, Zacarías Moutoukias, Jean Petitot, Pierre Rosenstiehl, Carlo Severi, Irène Tamba, Lorraine Verner, Wiktor Stoczkowski Compte rendu non communiqué

Morphologies

Séminaire commun avec la participation de : Olivier Abel, Luciano Boi, Jean-Claude Bonne, Marion Carel, Giovanni Careri, Enrico Castelli Gattinara, Patrice Ceccarini, Danièle Cohn, Georges Didi-Huberman, Fernando Gil, Maurizio Gribaudi, Ryozo Hiyama, Bernard Jaulin, Gérard Jorland, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Hervé Le Bras, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Silvia Mancini, Jean Petitot, Pierre Rosenstiehl, Carlo Severi, Wiktor Stoczkowski, Lorraine Verner Compte rendu non communiqué

Morphologies

Séminaire commun avec la participation d’Olivier Abel, Luciano Boi, Jean-Claude Bonne, Marion Carel, Giovanni Careri, Enrico Castelli Gattinara, Patrice Ceccarini, Danièle Cohn, Ryozo Hiyama, Georges Didi-Huberman, Fernando Gil, Maurizio Gribaudi, Bernard Jaulin, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Hervé Le Bras, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Silvia Mancini, Zacarias Moutoukias, Jean Petitot, Pierre Rosenstiehl, Carlo Severi, Lorraine Verner, Wiktor Stoczkowski Voici, les différents sujets abordés et discut..

Short and long term evaluations of Public Employment Services in Italy

In this paper we evaluate the efficacy of Public Employment Services in Italy (PESs) in increasing the unemployment to employment transition probabilities, through matching techniques. Exploiting the longitudinal dimension of the LFS data we design an evaluation structure that allows observing outcomes in both the short (at most 3 months) and the long run (at most 12 and 15 months). In this framework, PES users show a lower probability of finding a job in the short term, because of a lock-in effect, while in the long term this probability turns out to be positive. Similar results are derived when considering as outcome a proxy for the quality of the job, i.e. having found a permanent job. Robustness checks and sensitivity analysis confirm this evidence, suggesting also that our estimates are to be considered as lower bound in the eventuality of unobserved negative selection into treatment

Introduction. Que reste-t-il de « l’histoire sociale » ?

En sous-titrant « Douze Exercices d’histoire sociale » son recueil d’articles publié en 2006, Jacques Revel savait qu’il prenait le risque de surprendre ses lecteurs. L’histoire sociale n’était-elle pas passée de mode ? Lui-même n’avait-il pas consacré une part importante de ses efforts intellectuels à la réflexion historiographique et à l’histoire culturelle – comme en témoignaient les essais réunis sous ce pavillon un peu désuet ? De toute évidence, ce choix inattendu cherchait à dissiper u..