Arbeitspapier
Workfare for the old and long-term unemployed
We estimate the effects of conditioning benefits on program participation among older long-term unemployed workers. We exploit a Swedish reform which reduced UI duration from 90 to 60 weeks for a group of older unemployed workers in a setting where workers who exhausted their benefits received unchanged transfers if they agreed to participate in a work practice program. Our results show that job finding increased as a result of the shorter duration of passive benefits. The time profile of the job-finding effects suggests that the effects are due to deterrence effects during the program-entry phase. We find no evidence of wage reductions, suggesting that the increased job-finding rate was driven by increased search intensity rather than lower reservation wages.
- Sprache
-
Englisch
- Erschienen in
-
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2012:7
- Klassifikation
-
Wirtschaft
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
Retirement; Retirement Policies
- Thema
-
Activation
program evaluation
duration
Aktivierende Sozialhilfe
Ältere Arbeitskräfte
Wirkungsanalyse
Schweden
- Ereignis
-
Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
-
Bennmarker, Helge
Nordström Skans, Oskar
Vikman, Ulrika
- Ereignis
-
Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
-
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
- (wo)
-
Uppsala
- (wann)
-
2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
-
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
Datenpartner
Dieses Objekt wird bereitgestellt von:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bennmarker, Helge
- Nordström Skans, Oskar
- Vikman, Ulrika
- Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
Entstanden
- 2012
Ähnliche Objekte (12)
Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?
Are the Spanish long-term unemployed unemployable?
Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?
Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
Scarring effects of remaining unemployed for long-term unemployed school-leavers
Scarring effects of remaining unemployed for long-term unemployed school-leavers
Explaining the employability gap of short-term and long-term unemployed persons
Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons
Do Long-term Unemployed Workers Benefit from Targeted Wage Subsidies?
Assisting the Long-Term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial
Old age in Japan : long-term statistics
Do Fixed-Term Contracts Increase the Long-Term Employment Opportunities of the Unemployed?
Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?
Are the Spanish long-term unemployed unemployable?
Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?
Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
Scarring effects of remaining unemployed for long-term unemployed school-leavers
Scarring effects of remaining unemployed for long-term unemployed school-leavers
Explaining the employability gap of short-term and long-term unemployed persons
Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons
Do Long-term Unemployed Workers Benefit from Targeted Wage Subsidies?
Assisting the Long-Term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial
Old age in Japan : long-term statistics
Do Fixed-Term Contracts Increase the Long-Term Employment Opportunities of the Unemployed?
Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?
Are the Spanish long-term unemployed unemployable?
Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?
Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
Scarring effects of remaining unemployed for long-term unemployed school-leavers
Scarring effects of remaining unemployed for long-term unemployed school-leavers
Explaining the employability gap of short-term and long-term unemployed persons
Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons
Do Long-term Unemployed Workers Benefit from Targeted Wage Subsidies?
Assisting the Long-Term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial
Old age in Japan : long-term statistics