Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker

Gerard van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller and Bettina M. Siflinger ()
Additional contact information
Gerrit Müller: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg
Bettina M. Siflinger: Tilburg University

No 12835, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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 a unique set of register data on all unemployed coached by the same team of caseworkers and their treatments. We find that the combination of a higher negative reciprocity and a stricter regime have a negative interaction effect on search effort exerted by the unemployed. The results are stronger for males than for females. Stricter regimes may therefore drive long-term unemployed males with certain types of social preferences further away from the labor market.

Keywords: monitoring; active labor market policy; behavioral response; welfare; job search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D90 J16 J24 J64 N44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2019-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab and nep-soc
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Published - published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106706

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp12835.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker (2024)
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)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp12835

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().