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Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Evidence From Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States

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Ashenfelter, Orley () (Princeton University and IZA, Bonn)
Ashmore, David (Princeton University)
Deschênes, Olivier (Princeton University)

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In this paper we report the results of the only field test of which we are aware that uses randomized trials to measure whether stricter enforcement and verification of work search behavior alone decreases unemployment claims and benefits paid in the U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) program. These experiments, which we implemented in four sites in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Tennessee, were designed to explicitly test claims based on nonexperimental data, summarized in Burgess and Kingston (1987), that a prime cause of overpayments is the failure of claimants to actively seek work. Our results provide no support for the view that the failure to actively search for work has been a cause of overpayments in the UI system.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 128.

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Keywords: Social experiment; overpayment; work-search requirement;

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C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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  1. Behaghel, Luc & Crépon, Bruno & Gurgand, Marc & Le Barbanchon, Thomas, 2009. "Sample Attrition Bias in Randomized Experiments: A Tale of Two Surveys," IZA Discussion Papers 4162, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  2. Bruno Crépon & Muriel Dejemeppe & Marc Gurgand, 2005. "Counseling the Unemployed: Does It Lower Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?," IZA Discussion Papers 1796, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  3. Stefanie Behncke & Markus Fröhlich & Michael Lechner, 2007. "Unemployed and their Caseworkers: Should they be Friends or Foes?," University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2007 2007-45, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Alan Manning, 2005. "You Cant Always Get What You Want: the Impact of the Jobseekers Allowance," CEP Discussion Papers dp0697, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. [Downloadable!]
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