Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51759 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5631
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
While job search theory predicts that active labour market policies (ALMPs) can affect post-unemployment outcomes, empirical evaluations investigating transition rates have mostly focused on the impact of ALMPs on exit rates from the current unemployment spell. We use a social experiment, which was conducted in Denmark in 2005-6, to investigate the effects of a dramatic intensification of ALMPs on reemployment stability. We investigate the nature of this impact. We estimate a duration model with lagged duration dependence to separately identify indirect (via shorter unemployment duration) and direct (through a more efficient matching process) effects of ALMPs on subsequent employment duration. We find that overall intensive activation significantly reduces unemployment recurrence for men, but not for women. When we control for dynamic selection into employment and lagged duration dependence, the positive impact of the treatment becomes smaller but remains significant. 80% of the global impact of intensification acts through the direct channel for men.
Subjects: 
social experiment
labour market policy regime
treatment effect
post-unemployment outcome
duration model
lagged duration dependence
dynamic selection
JEL: 
J64
C21
C41
J68
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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