Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker

Beschreibung

"We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with “sticks” policies that impose constraints on individual job search effort, in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of reciprocity, to a unique set of register data on all unemployed coached by the same team of caseworkers and treatments they receive. We find that the combination of a higher negative reciprocity and a stricter regime has a negative interaction effect on search effort exerted by the unemployed. The results are stronger for males than for females. Stricter regimes may drive long-term unemployed males with certain types of social preferences further away from the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))

Zitationshinweis

Berg, Gerard J. van den, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller & Bettina M. Siflinger (2024): Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker. In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Jg. 227. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106706