Reciprocity and the Interaction Between the Unemployed and the Caseworker

Gerard Van den Berg, Gerrit Mueller and Bettina Siflinger
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Iris Kesternich

No 15038, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort, in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of reciprocity as a personality trait, to unique register data on all unemployed coached by the same team of caseworkers and their treatments. We find that the combination of a high negative reciprocity and a strict regime has a negative interaction effect on search effort. The results are stronger for males than for females. Strict regimes may thus drive long-term unemployed males with certain types of social preferences further away from the labor market.

Keywords: Behavioral response; Active labor market policy; Monitoring; Welfare; Job search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 I38 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-07
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