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Do Caseworker Meetings Prevent Unemployment? Evidence from a Field Experiment

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  • Homrighausen, Pia

    (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF))

  • Oberfichtner, Michael

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg)

Abstract

Caseworker meetings have been shown to accelerate exit from unemployment. We explore whether they are also effectual before entering unemployment. In a natural field experiment, we offer caseworker meetings to workers at risk of losing their jobs while they are still employed. We find that the offer induces additional meetings and substantially shifts the first meeting forward but has no effect on entry into unemployment or on labour market outcomes within one year. The intervention does not alter jobseekers' search behaviour, which likely explains its inefficacy.

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  • Homrighausen, Pia & Oberfichtner, Michael, 2024. "Do Caseworker Meetings Prevent Unemployment? Evidence from a Field Experiment," IZA Discussion Papers 16923, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    1. van den Berg, Gerard J. & Kunaschk, Max & Lang, Julia & Stephan, Gesine & Uhlendorff, Arne, 2023. "Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers," IZA Discussion Papers 16426, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Guglielmo Briscese & Giulio Zanella & Veronica Quinn, 2022. "Providing Government Assistance Online: A Field Experiment with the Unemployed," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 41(2), pages 579-602, March.
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    Keywords

    job search assistance; caseworker meetings; job search; field experiment;
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    JEL classification:

    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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