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IAB Colloquium

The discussion series "Labour Market and Occupational Research (IAB-Colloquium zur Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung)" is a forum where primarily external researchers present the results of their work and discuss these with experts from IAB. Practitioners from the political, administrative and business fields are naturally also welcome.

The Effects of Reducing Mandatory Job Search in Unemployment Insurance

IAB-Colloquium with Assistant Professor Dr. rer. pol. Amelie Schiprowski, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

This paper studies the effects of a market-level reduction in job search provided by unemployment benefit recipients. We exploit a market-level policy change in Switzerland, where a subset of Public Employment Services reduced the number of required applications by 25% and abolished mandatory vacancy referrals.

Using detailed administrative data and difference-in-differences designs, we find that the policy change increased the average duration of unemployment spells by about 6%, while increasing average reemployment earnings by about 2%. At the firm side, vacancy filling and posting reduced substantially.

Date

13.11.2025

, 11 a.m. until noon

Venue

Institute for Employment Research
Regensburger Straße 104
90478 Nürnberg
Room Re100 E10

or online via MS Teams

Registration

Researchers who like to participate, please send an e-mail to IAB.Colloquium@iab.de