The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs

Jan van Ours

No 527, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells. The focus of the analysis is temporary subsidized jobs. By exploiting the variation in the duration of these jobs it is possible to investigate whether or not the locking-in effect is important. It turns out that it is.

Keywords: unemployment; active labor market policy; duration models; subsidized jobs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2002-07
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Published - published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2004, 32 (1), 37-55

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