Channels through which Public Employment Services and Small Business Assistance Programmes Work*
利用罗马尼亚1990年代末的丰富调查数据，比较公共就业服务与小企业援助计划对不同失业群体的相对效果，发现效果因群体而异，政策需因地制宜。
Empirical evidence has found that public employment services (PES) and small business assistance (SBA) programmes are successful at getting the unemployed back to work. Policywise it is important to know which of these two programmes is more effective, for whom, and when. Using unusually rich survey data and matching methods, this study evaluates the relative effectiveness of PES and SBA for different subgroups in Romania in the late 1990s, where the outcome variables involve earnings, employment and unemployment in 2000–1 and early 2002. It finds that heterogeneity matters and that these programmes need to be tailored to the problem at hand.