Early counselling of displaced workers - effects of collectively funded job search assistance

Josefine Andersson ()
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Josefine Andersson: IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Postal: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

No 2018:22, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Employment security agreements; collective agreementM; job loss; mass-layoffs; notification; job search assistance; regression discontinuity design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J59 J63 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2018-12-03
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