Early counselling of displaced workers: Effects of collectively funded job search assistance

Arbeitspapier

Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to study very early job search counselling of displaced workers. These agreements provide individual job search assistance to workers who are dismissed due to redundancy, often as early as during the period of notice. Compared to traditional labor market policies, the assistance provided is earlier and more responsive to the needs of the individual worker. In this study, I investigate the effects of the individual counseling and job search assistance provided through the Employment Security Agreement for Swedish blue-collar workers on job finding and subsequent job quality. The empirical strategy is based on the rules of eligibility in a regression discontinuity framework. I estimate the effect for workers with short tenure, who are dismissed through mass-layoffs. My results do not suggest that the program has an effect on the probability of becoming unemployed, the duration of unemployment, or income. However, the results indicate that the program has a positive effect on the duration of the next job.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2018:22

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Other ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• Thema: Employment security agreements ; collective agreement ; job loss ; mass-layoffs ; notification ; job search assistance ; regression discontinuity design

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Andersson, Josefine
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
• (wo): Uppsala
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/201460
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ