Activating unemployed workers works; Experimental evidence from Denmark

Brian Krogh Graversen and Jan C. van Ours

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 100, issue 2, 308-310

Abstract: In a field experiment in two Danish counties about half of the unemployed workers were randomly assigned to a mandatory activation program. Analyzing data from this experiment we show that activation can be very effective in reducing unemployment durations.

Date: 2008
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