Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46022 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5424
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper evaluates a job search assistance program for unemployment insurance recipients. The assignment to the program is dynamic. We provide a discussion on dynamic treatment effects and identification conditions. In the empirical analyses we use administrative data from a unique institutional environment. This allows us to compare different microeconometric evaluation estimators. All estimators find that the job search assistance program reduces the exit to work, in particular when provided early during the spell of unemployment. Furthermore, continuous-time (timing-of-events and regression discontinuity) methods are more robust than discrete-time (propensity score and regression discontinuity) methods.
Subjects: 
treatment evaluation
dynamic enrollment
empirical evaluation
JEL: 
C22
J64
J68
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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