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102 Scandinavian schemes that are coupled with a high degree of compulsion to enter them
have been the most successful. See OECD, supra note 12 or OECD, supra note 75, pp. 85–6.
103 Ibid. See also OECD, supra note 75, pp. 85–6.
104 Van Reenen, supra note 40, p. 1.
105 Ibid., p. 2.
106 Ibid., p. 8.
107 See ibid., pp. 13–18 for a full account.
108 Ibid., p. 19.
109 Peter Dolton and Donal O’Neill, “Unemployment duration and the restart effect: some
experimental evidence,” Economic Journal, 106(435) (1996), p. 390.
110 Milhar and Smith, supra note 45, pp. 4–7.
111 OECD, supra note 75, p. 82.
112 The strategy of requiring all job vacancies to be posted to government-run job banks may
constitute undue labour market regulation and be a deterrent to hiring. The question of how
large of a deterrent such a policy would be is an empirical one, and must be balanced against
the efficiency gains associated with having a central repository of all job openings.
113 Leigh, 1995, supra note 35, p. 188.
114 For example, employers might simply use unskilled, cheap labour without providing any
training, and employees may look for the least skills-intensive job without having to go
through any training.
115 Hall, supra note 84, p. 12.
116 OECD, supra note 92, p. 222.
117 “Job network ad costs $1.3m,” Courier-Mail (November 11, 2003).
118 OECD, supra note 75.
119 Ibid., p. 84.
120 OECD, supra note 39, p. 31.
121 See Donahue, supra note 20, p. 198.
122 Bart Cockx, “The design of active labour market policies: what matters and what doesn’t?,”
Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales and the Université Catholique de Louvain
Department of Economics (1998), p. 8.
123 Ibid., p. 10.
124 Ibid., p. 11.
125 Dockery and Stromback, supra note 83, p. 437.
126 Ibid., p. 444.
127 Ibid.
128 Heckman, LaLonde and Smith, supra note 79.
129 Lundsgaard, supra note 85, p. 21.
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Conclusion
1 See Michael J.Trebilcock, “Lurching around Chicago: the positive challenge of explaining the
recent regulatory reform agenda,” in Richard M.Bird, Michael J. Trebilcock and Thomas
A.Wilson (eds) Rationality in Public Policy: Retrospect and Prospect, A Tribute to Douglas
Hartle (Toronto: Canadian Tax Foundation, 1999), Chapter 11; Michael Trebilcock and Ron
Daniels, “Journeys across the institutional divides: reinterpreting the reinventing government
movement,” Working Paper, University of Toronto Law School (2000).
2 J.M.Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money (London: Macmillan,
1936), p. 384.