Active job-search programs a promising tool? A microeconometric evaluation for Austria

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In Austria active job-search programs were introduced on a large scale in 1999. These programs aim at activating unemployed at an early stage and bringing them back to work by training job-search related skills. We evaluate the impact of active labour market programs in Austria on individual unemployment durations, and allow program effects to vary between active job-search programs and formal training programs. We use the timing-of-events method which estimates the program effect as a shift in the transition rate from unemployment to jobs at the moment of program entry. We find that participation in active job-search programs significantly reduces unemployment durations, whereas formal training programs have a negative effect on unemployment durations. For women all programs have positive effects.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series ; No. 131

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General ; Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• Subject: active labour market policy ; treatment effect ; multivariate duration model ; Arbeitsplatzsuchmodell ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Multivariate Analyse ; Österreich

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Weber, Andrea ; Hofer, Helmut
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/71228
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