Counseling the Unemployed: Does it Lower Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

By Bruno Crépon, Muriel Dejemeppe, Marc Gurgand. Social Science Research Network, 2005

126 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This article evaluates the effects of intensive counseling schemes that are provided to about 20% of the unemployed since the 2001 French unemployment policy reform (PARE). Several of the schemes are dedicated at improving the quality of assignment of workers to jobs. As a result, it is necessary to assess their impact on unemployment recurrence as well as unemployment duration. Using duration models and a very rich data set, we can identify heterogenous and time-dependent causal effects of the schemes. We find significant favorable effects on both outcomes, but the impact on unemployment recurrence is stronger than on unemployment duration. In particular, the program shifts the incidence of recurrence, one year after employment, from 33 to 26%. This illustrates that labor market policies evaluations that consider unemployment duration alone can be misleading.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Statistics and Probability

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Jochen Kluve
2. M. Rosholm
3. Bruno Crépon
4. Gerard J. van den Berg
5. Leif Husted
6. Hans Hummelgaard
7. Jens R Clausen
8. Eskil Heinesen

In General Health Professions

1. Jochen Kluve
2. Gerard J. van den Berg
3. Bruno Crépon
4. M. Rosholm

In Statistics and Probability

1. Gerard J. van den Berg
2. Jochen Kluve
3. Bruno Crépon
4. M. Rosholm
5. Marco Caliendo
6. David J. McKenzie
7. Yoonyoung Cho
8. Maddalena Honorati

Citations in the corpus

• The Effectiveness of Public-Sponsored Training Revisited: The Importance of Data and Methodological Choices (2014, unknown): “Evaluations for other countries ðBlundell et al. 2004; Weber and Hofer 2004; Crépon, Dejemeppe, and Gurgand 2005; Fougère, Pradel, and Roger 2005; van den Berg and van der Klaauw 2006Þ and policy discussions ðMartin and Grubb 2001; OECD 2005Þ suggest that short-term training programs are superior…”
• The effectiveness of European active labor market programs (2010, background): “Country Evaluation study Program type Target group Observation period Evaluation method Program effect t2:4 Austria Weber and Hofer (2003) Services and sanctions 1999–2001 Duration Positive t2:5 Training 1999–2001 Duration Negative t2:6 Winter-Ebmer(2001) Training 1987 OLS/selection/other Positive t”
• The Effect of Integration Policies on the Time Until Regular Employment of Newly Arrived Immigrants: Evidence from Denmark (2009, methodology): “…duration model of Abbring and van den Berg (2003) which has been used to evaluate ALMPs in several previous studies; see, e.g., Richardson and van den Berg (2001), van den Berg et al. (2004), Abbring et al. (2005), Crépon et al. (2005), Lalive et al. (2005, 2008), and Rosholm and Svarer (2008).”
• Active Labor Market Policies (2016, background): “In a randomized evaluation of an assistance program in Denmark, Blasco & Rosholm (2011) show that the stability of newly found jobs improves for those who participated in the program (for an observational study, see Crépon et al. 2005).”