unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive … the transition rate to work does not depend on the timing of the meeting. -- unemployment ; active labor market policy … ; unemployment duration ; treatment effects ; meetings ; job search assistance ; case worker …

While job search theory predicts that active labour market policies (ALMPs) can affect post-unemployment outcomes … unemployment spell. We use a social experiment, which was conducted in Denmark in 2005-6, to investigate the effects of a dramatic … duration dependence to separately identify "indirect" (via shorter unemployment duration) and "direct" (through a more …

participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in … increases in the exit rate from unemployment ranging from 20 to 40%. When introducing time-varying indicators for the various … rate from unemployment, neither during the week in which the activity takes place, nor after the activity is completed …