Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Bart Leo Wim Cockx () and Muriel Dejemeppe ()

No 2854, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counseled shortly after the notification, while in others not or only once the monitoring has taken place. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the threat effect of the notification on the probability of employment. We find that the effect is heterogeneous and critically depends on whether and when notified workers are counseled.

Keywords: evaluation; monitoring job-search; threat effect; regression-discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J65 J68 H43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-06
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