Activating Unemployed Workers Works; Experimental Evidence from Denmark

Posted: 22 Jan 2015

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Brian Krogh Graversen

National Research Centre for the Working Environment

Jan C. van Ours

Tilburg University - Department of Economics; University of Melbourne - Department of Economics

Date Written: February 19, 2008

Abstract

In a field experiment in two Danish counties about half of the unemployed workers were randomly assigned to a mandatory activation program. Analyzing data from this experiment we show that activation can be very effective in reducing unemployment durations.

Keywords: Unemployment insurance; Unemployment duration; Experiment

JEL Classification: J6; C9

Suggested Citation

Graversen, Brian Krogh and van Ours, Jan C., Activating Unemployed Workers Works; Experimental Evidence from Denmark (February 19, 2008). Economics Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 2, pp. 308-310, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2553334

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University of Melbourne - Department of Economics ( email )

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