Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search Program

Blundell, Richard; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, Costas

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198749806.003.0011

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“…In addition, we use a cross-sectional version of the difference-in-differencesmatching (DiDM) estimator, similar to Blundell et al (2004) and Centeno et al (2009). The estimator is based on the change in the outcome variables between the treatment and the matched control group between two periods.…”

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Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back Into the Labor Market?

Boockmann

Brändle

2019

German Economic Review

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Intensified counseling, job search assistance and related policies have been found to be effective for labor market integration of the unemployed by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard‐to‐place unemployed is more mixed. In this paper, we present key results for a large‐scale active labor market program directed at the older unemployed in Germany. To identify the treatment effects, we exploit regional variation in program participation. We use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution and local labor market effects. We find positive effects of the program in the range of 5–10 percentage points on integration into unsubsidized employment. However, there are also substantial lock‐in effects, such that program participants have a higher probability of remaining on public welfare benefit receipt for up to 1 year after commencing the program.

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Section: Estimation Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back Into the Labor Market?

Boockmann

Brändle

2019

German Economic Review

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“…Athey and Imbens (2006) show that when the distributions of treatment and control groups are the same a simple means difference-in-differences estimator is consistent. In selecting firms for our treatment and control groups we are guided by this condition, which implies that for the control group to constitute a valid counterfactual two equivalent conditions − common trends and a stable composition of the two groups -must be satisfied (Blundell et al, 2004). Furthermore, we follow Draca, Machin and Van Reenen (2011) who used the same dataset and conducted extensive robustness analysis of the two conditions.…”

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The UK National Minimum Wage's Impact on Productivity

Rizov

Croucher

Lange

2016

British J of Management

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Low pay poses issues for managers internationally. We examine productivity in lowpaying sectors in Britain, since the introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW). We use a multiple channel analytical strategy, emphasizing the wage incentives channel and linking it to a model of unobserved productivity. We estimate firm-specific productivity measures and aggregate them to the level of low-paying sectors. Differencein-differences analysis illustrates that the NMW positively affected aggregate low-paying sector productivity. These findings highlight increased wage incentive effects with implications for management practice and public policy since 'living' wages may be productivity enhancing.

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“…However, there is no evidence on the effectiveness of U.S. reemployment programs during the Great Recession, with the most recent studies examining programs implemented more than a decade before the start of the recession (Black et al, 2003;Decker et al, 2000;Klepinger, Johnson, & Joesch, 2002). Although there are many studies of such programs in Europe, evaluations are generally in the context of relatively strong labor markets (e.g., Abbring, van den Berg, & van Ours, 2005;Blundell et al, 2004;Graversen & van Ours, 2008;Hägglund, 2011). This paper examines a reemployment program implemented in the state of Nevada that targeted workers who started collecting Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits in the second half of 2009.…”

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Are Reemployment Services Effective? Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession

Michaelides

Mueser²

2018

J Policy Anal Manage

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We examine an experimental‐design reemployment program implemented in Nevada during the Great Recession that required Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients to: (1) undergo an eligibility review to confirm they were qualified for benefits and actively searching for work and, if deemed eligible, (2) receive job‐counseling services. Our results show that the program expedited participant exit from UI, produced UI savings that exceeded program costs, and improved participant employment outcomes. Analyses of program effects on the UI exit likelihood show that the program's effects are partly associated with increased participant exit up through the time when program activities were scheduled, reflecting voluntary exit of participants from UI to avoid program activities and disqualifications of participants who failed to meet eligibility requirements. In addition, the program induced substantial participant exit from UI in the period after participants fulfilled requirements and their interactions with the program had ended, suggesting that the job‐counseling services offered by the program may have helped participants to conduct more effective job searches. Our findings provide evidence that reemployment programs that combine an eligibility review with mandatory participation in job‐search services can be effective during recessions.

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Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search Program

Cited by 126 publications

References 35 publications

Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back Into the Labor Market?

Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back Into the Labor Market?

The UK National Minimum Wage's Impact on Productivity

Are Reemployment Services Effective? Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession

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