Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation

We analyse three Danish experiments with combinations of early and intensive active labour market policy. We find that frequent individual meetings between newly unemployed workers and their caseworkers have substantial (and significant) effects on employment rates in both the medium and long run. G...

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Volume:	119
Main Author:	Maibom, Jonas Rosholm, Michael Svarer, Michael
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade
Place of publication:	HOBOKEN WILEY 01.07.2017 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	The Scandinavian journal of economics Vol. 119; no. 3; pp. 541 - 570
Data of publication:	July 2017
ISSN:	0347-0520 1467-9442
EISSN:	1467-9442
Discipline:	Economics
Bibliography:	We are grateful to the Danish Labour Market Board for making data available and for the CAFE grant enabling part of this research, to Rune Vejlin and seminar participants at IAB, University of Bergen and SOFI at Stockholm University for valuable comments. Finally, we thank two anonymous referees for very valuable comments and suggestions.
Subjects:	cost–benefit analysis J64 randomized social experiment treatment effect Active labour market policy J68 Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Human resource departments Cost benefit analysis Meetings Analysis Restaurants Computer programs LABOR-MARKET PROGRAMS REQUIREMENTS randomized social experiment treatment effect cost-benefit analysis J64 WORK Active labour market policy J68 THREAT DURATION
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