The labour market plans of parenting payment recipients: information from a randomised social experiment

Garry Barrett and Deborah Cobb-Clark

Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), 2000, vol. 4, issue 3, 192-205

Abstract: This paper reports the preliminary results of a randomised social experiment conducted by the Department of Family and Community Services involving approximately 5,000 Parenting Payment customers. Three samples of Parenting Payment customers were randomly selected. One sample was asked to voluntarily undergo an interview with a Jobs, Education, and training (JET) adviser, another was compelled to undergo an interview, while the control sample received no information about JET interviews at all. Our results indicate that a widespread policy of compelling individuals to participate in JET interviews affects both the level of participation and the characteristics of those who participate. On the whole, however, there is little evidence that individual responses to the interview differ significantly between those who voluntarily and those who are compelled to attend. Finally, differences in local labour market conditions or perhaps JET advisors themselves appear to play a role in influencing policy outcomes.

Keywords: Fertility; Child Care; Children; Youth Demographic Economics: Public Policy Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy (includes Employment Services) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J18 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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