Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the UI System *

By D. Black, Jeffrey A. Smith, M. Berger, Brett J. Noel. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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Counseling the Unemployed: Does it Lower Unemployment Duration and Recurrence? (2005, methodology): “Blundell et al. (2004) present estimation results which suggest that the New Deal for young people in UK increases by 4.5% points the probability to find a job lasting at least 13 weeks (the outcome variable), but the duration of employment is not formally analysed. Dolton and O’Neill (2002) find no”
Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research (2006, neutral): “A recent study by Black et al. (2003) also provides fairly conclusive evidence in favor of”
Unobservable, but unimportant? The relevance of usually unobserved variables for the evaluation of labor market policies☆ (2017, background): “Another strand of the literature points out the importance of expectations in general (e.g. Spinnewijn, 2015), but also specifically about ALMP participation (e.g. Black et al., 2003; van den Berg et al., 2009), for the search behavior of unemployed job seekers.”
Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment (2001, background): “But Black et al. (2003) convincingly show that a large share of the reduction to the threat of having to go through the program.”
Unemployed and their caseworkers: should they be friends or foes? (2010, positive): “…and van Ours, 2006; Lalive et al., 2006; Lalive and Zehnder, 2007), no or positive effects were found for monitoring (Ashenfelter et al., 2000; Bloom et al., 2003; Meyer, 1995; Gorter and Kalb, 1996; Dolton and O’Neill, 1996), mixed effects were found for active labour market programmes…”
Optimal unemployment insurance design: Time limits, monitoring, or workfare? (2006, background): “ Black et al, 2003 ), the threat of workfare must be lower than the threat of unemployment assistance.”
Social Experiments and Instrumental Variables with Duration Outcomes (2005, background): “Chesher (2003) considers an MPH-type model with an endogenous continuous treatment indicator S as well as exogenous variables X, a continuous instrument Z, and a latent variable equation relating S and Z.”
Active Labor Market Policies (2016, background): “One of the first studies to document this was that of Black et al. (2003).”
Learning about job search: A field experiment with job seekers in Germany (2015, background): “…alike have generally been worried about individuals at risk of long-term unemployment, for instance because of the loss of skills it entails, and many policy interventions have been specifically targeted to tackle long-term unemployment (see for example Black et al. 2003 and Blundell et al. 2004).”