The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Welfare Receipt

Nicolas Hérault, Ha Vu and Roger Wilkins ()

No 13684, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Many countries impose job search requirements on unemployment benefit recipients. Existing studies have evaluated only incremental changes to requirements. Australian reforms in 1995 saw groups of welfare recipients newly subjected to job search requirements, allowing us to produce the first causal estimates of the total effects of such requirements on welfare receipt. Using a quasi-experimental design and administrative data, we find large negative effects on welfare receipt for the mature-age partnered women targeted by the reforms. We also find large negative effects on welfare receipt of their partners, suggesting family labour supply decisions were considerably affected.

Keywords: job search requirements; unemployment benefit; welfare receipt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 H31 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2020-09
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Published - published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 635 - 657

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