Since July 2004, the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants has been monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 present in the first year of the reform to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least eight months before job search is verified. Eight months after this notification and prior to the first monitoring interview, transitions to employment have increased by nearly nine percentage points compared to the counterfactual of no reform. Participation in training is raised, but not significantly, while withdrawals from the labor force are not affected. Url or DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2012.05.017 Authors Bart Cockx Muriel Dejemeppe Country Belgium Publication Year 2012 Ranges Intervention Intervention Start Year 2004 Intervention End Year 2004 Evaluation Evaluation Start Year 2004 Evaluation End Year 2004 Policy field Labour market services Counselling and monitoring Target group Labour market status Unemployed (All cat.) Young unemployed Details Funding Source Other Outcome Variable Employment status Income/wages Data Source Administrative Evaluation Method RDD
