Arbeitspapier
Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance
We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job-search assistance programs. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March 2010, caused a sharp drop in the availability of these programs. Using administrative data provided by the UI administration, we evaluate the effect of the program using (1) the policy discontinuity as a quasi-experiment, (2) conventional matching methods, and (3) the timing-of-events model. All three methods use the same data to consider the same program in the same setting, and also yield similar results. The program reduces job finding during the first six months after enrollment. At longer durations, the quasi-experimental estimates are not significantly different from zero, while the non-experimental methods show a small negative effect.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 17-019/V
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
- Thema
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empirical policy evaluation
job-search assistance
unemployment duration
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Muller, Paul
van der Klaauw, Bas
Heyma, Arjan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Muller, Paul
- van der Klaauw, Bas
- Heyma, Arjan
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2017