Evaluating the employment impact of a mandatory job search assistance program

Richard Blundell (), Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and John van Reenen

No W01/20, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: This paper is an evaluation of the British labor market program the "New Deal for the Young Unemployed" using administrative panel data on individuals between 1982 and 1999. This mandatory program involves extensive job assistance followed by various other options, including wage subsidies. We exploit the differential timing of the introduction of the program across regions as well as age-related eligibility rules to identify the program effect. Estimates of the employment effects of the mandatory job search assistance part of the program are presented using a variety of estimation techniques exploring combined "difference in differences" and matching procedures. Our key finding is that unemployed men are now 20% more likely to gain jobs than prior to the New Deal.

JEL-codes: J18 J23 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pp
Date: 2001-08-03
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