The Locking-In Effect of Subsidized Jobs

By J. van Ours. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability

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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - a Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity (2004, unknown): “Following van Ours (2002), the net effect of a programme consists of two opposite effects.”
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Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps (2012, background): “…fact that individuals with shorter spells of training have more time in the labor market before the 48-month survey—that is, the lock-in effect (van Ours, 2004)—we consider the alternative outcome that fixes the time between the end of training and when the individual’s earnings are measured at…”
The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation (2008, unknown): “What should be kept in mind is the possible occurrence of locking-in effects for the group of participants. van Ours (2004) notes that the net effect of a programme consists of two opposite effects: First, the employment probability of the participants is expected to rise due to positive aspects of…”
Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey (2006, unknown): “15Gerfin and Lechner (2002), Gerfin, Lechner and Steiger (2005), Hujer, Caliendo and Thompsen (2004, 2006), Van Ours (2004), and Zhang (2003).”
Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany (2011, result): “IABDiscussionPaper No. 3/2005 3”
Unobservable, but unimportant? The relevance of usually unobserved variables for the evaluation of labor market policies☆ (2017, background): “…in training programs are induced by ‘locking-in’ effects, i.e. lower employment in early periods due to a reduction of participants' search effort before and during program participation (e.g. Van Ours, 2004; Jespersen et al., 2008). collar worker when the individuals were 15 years old.”
The influence of family responsibilities, career fields and gender on career success (2008, background): “Contrarily, a loss of career perspectives and job alternatives results in locked-in effects ( van Ours, 2004”
What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes (2008, background): “…for thispaper inan internet appendixonour website www.siaw.unisg.ch/lechner/lw_fbw_west. programmes they consider exhibit negative employment and earnings effects in the short run,whicharedirectly related toprogrammeduration (so-called lockin effects in the terminology of van Ours 2004)1.”