How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance

Brian Krogh Graversen () and Jan van Ours
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Brian Krogh Graversen: Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI)

No 4079, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence of the unemployed worker and the place where the activation took place. We also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm that activation programs mainly work because they are compulsory and unemployed don't like them.

Keywords: experiment; unemployment duration; unemployment insurance; activation programs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 H55 J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2009-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-ias and nep-lab
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Published - published as 'An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 167 - 181

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