Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker

Gerard J. van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller and Bettina M. Siflinger

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, vol. 227, issue C

Abstract: We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with “sticks” policies that impose 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, to a unique set of register data on all unemployed coached by the same team of caseworkers and treatments they receive. We find that the combination of a higher negative reciprocity and a stricter regime has a negative interaction effect on search effort exerted by the unemployed. The results are stronger for males than for females. Stricter regimes may 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: 2024
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Working Paper: Reciprocity and the Interaction Between the Unemployed and the Caseworker (2020)
Working Paper: Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker (2020)
Working Paper: Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker (2019)
Working Paper: Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker (2019)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106706

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