Arbeitspapier
The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility
Subsidizing the geographical mobility of unemployed workers may improve welfare by relaxing their financial constraints and allowing them to find jobs in more prosperous regions. We exploit regional variation in the promotion of mobility programs along administrative borders of German employment agency districts to investigate the causal effect of offering such financial incentives on the job search behavior and labor market integration of unemployed workers. We show that promoting mobility - as intended - causes job seekers to increase their search radius, apply for and accept distant jobs. At the same time, local job search is reduced with adverse consequences for reemployment and earnings. These unintended negative effects are provoked by spatial search frictions. Overall, the unconditional provision of mobility programs harms the welfare of unemployed job seekers.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15011
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
- Thema
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job search
active labor market policy
labor market mobility
unintended consequence
search frictions
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Caliendo, Marco
Künn, Steffen
Mahlstedt, Robert
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Caliendo, Marco
- Künn, Steffen
- Mahlstedt, Robert
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2022
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