This paper evaluates a job search assistance program for unemployment insurance recipients. The assignment to the program is dynamic. We provide a discussion on dynamic treatment effects and identification conditions. In the empirical analyses we use administrative data from a unique institutional environment. This allows us to compare different microeconometric evaluation estimators. All estimators find that the job search assistance program reduces the exit to work, in particular when provided early during the spell of unemployment. Furthermore, continuous-time (timing-of-events and regression discontinuity) methods are more robust than discrete-time (propensity score and regression discontinuity) methods.
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Country
Netherlands
Publication Year
2011
Labour market services
Job-search assistance
Labour market status
Unemployed (All cat.)
Funding Source
Other
Outcome Variable
Employment status
Data Source
Administrative
Evaluation Method
PSM
RDD