From: Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Author | Country | Treatment | Sample | Horizon | Estimation | Employment | Unemployment | Education | Quality/Wages |
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Graversen and van Ours (2008) | Denmark (1) | Intensive contact with caseworkers and job search program with potential subsequent training participation | Unemployment entrants < 30 years | 10 to 15 weeks after unemployment entry (before training entry) | Randomized Controlled Trial | + | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Maibom et al. (2014) | Denmark (3) | Information letter, and intensified caseworker meeting, and mentoring, training participation. | Short- or long-term unemployed youth below 30 years, with or without qualifying education | Up to 3 years after entry into program | Randomized Controlled Trial | Uneducated: - educated: 0 | n/a | Uneducated: 0 educated: 0 | n/a |
van den Berg et al. (2012) | Denmark (4) | Meeting with the caseworker (counseling or monitoring) | Unemployed men and women with UB receipt, below 30 years | (Instantaneous effect) | Timing-of-events | + | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Crépon et al. (2013) | France (4) | Job search assistance by by private providers | University graduates (under 30 years), at least 6 months in unemployment | 8 month | Randomized Controlled Trial | + (partially due to displacement) | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Fougère et al. (2009) | France (5) | Vacancies information by the public employment service | Registered unemployed job seekers | Max. 1.5 years | Structural partial job search model | + | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Bernhard and Wolff (2008) | Germany (3) | Contracting out placement services to private providers | Recipients of social welfare, 15 - 24, East and West Germany, males and females (Wm, Wf, Em, Ef) | Up to 20 month | Propensity Score Matching | Em: + Ef: + Wm: 0 Wf: 0 | Em: 0 Ef: + Wm: + Wf: + | n/a | n/a |
van den Berg et al. (2015) | Germany (8) | Partial or complete withdrawal of social benefits (sanctions) for up to 3 months | Unemployed social welfare recipients 18 to 24 years | Immediate effect of sanction | Timing-of-events | + | - (only for single households) | n/a | - |
Micklewright and Nagy (2010) | Hungary | Increased job search monitoring for 4 months | New UI claimants with 75–179 days of UI entitlement | Up to 3 months | Randomized Controlled Trial | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Centeno et al. (2009) | Portugal | Early intervention, including job search assistance, counseling, monitoring and training, threat of sanctions | Youths below the age of 25 who were unemployed less than 6 months | 12 and 24 months after participation | Difference-in-Difference Matching | 0 | n/a | 0 | n/a |
Bennmarker et al. (2013) | Sweden (1) | Assignment to private placement providers, up to 6 months | Unemployed less than 25 years, with unemployment duration > 3 months | Up to 12 months after assignment | Randomized Controlled Trial | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
Engström et al. (2012) | Sweden (4) | Increased threat of monitoring of job search activity | Unemployed less than 30 years | 4 to 8 months | Randomized Controlled Trial | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Hägglund (2014) | Sweden (8) | Increased intensity of job search activities and monitoring | Regular and long-term unemployed between 18 to 24 years | Up to 3 years | Randomized Controlled Trial | regular: + long-term: 0 | regular: 0 long-term: 0 | n/a | regular: + long-term: 0 |
Blundell et al. (2004) | UK (2) | Intensified job search assistance/mentoring and wage subsidies, threat of sanctions | Unemployed, 18 to 24 years, longer than 6 months unemployed | First 4 months after program entry | DID using age and regional variation in eligibility | Men: + (partially due to wage subsidy) women: 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Petrongolo (2009) | UK (4) | Reduction of amount and duration of UB and introduction of job search requirements (diary) | Male unemployment entrants 16 to 24 | 3 months and 6 months | DID approach | Short-run: + long-run: - | + | n/a | - |
Dorsett (2006) | UK (3) | Extended job search relative to other NDYP options | Unemployed male UB benefit claimants for longer than 6 months, 18 to 24 years | Up to 1.5 years | Propensity Score Matching | + (rel. to all other options) | 0 (rel. to WS); - (rel. to training and JCS) | n/a | n/a |
van den Berg et al. (2014) | UK (5) | Enrollment in NDYP - Gateway period (job search) | Unemployed for at least 6 months, 18–24 years | One month | Kernel hazard regression exploiting random timing of introduction | + | n/a | n/a | n/a |