Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative … 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 …