The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs

Arbeitspapier

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells. The focus of the analysis is temporary subsidized jobs. By exploiting the variation in the duration of these jobs it is possible to investigate whether or not the locking-in effect is important. It turns out that it is.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 527

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• Thema: unemployment ; active labor market policy ; subsidized jobs ; duration models ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Lohnsubvention ; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Dauer ; Schätzung ; Slowakei ; lock-in Effekt

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): van Ours, Jan C.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2002

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21390
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ