unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important caseworker heterogeneity: Some consider … strategies even against the will of the unemployed person. They may assign job assignments and labour market programmes without … consent of the unemployed person. Based on a very detailed linked jobseeker-caseworker dataset, we investigate the effects of …

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers … dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … if caseworker and unemployed belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g. same gender of …

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers … dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … if caseworker and unemployed belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g. same gender of …

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers … dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … if caseworker and unemployed belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g. same gender of …

outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses …

We evaluate a wage subsidy program that is targeted at long-term unemployed workers in Germany. We use an alternative …