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A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers

Bas van der Klaauw and Lennart Ziegler
Published online before print June 10, 2022, 1021-11946R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1021-11946R2
Bas van der Klaauw
Bas van der Klaauw is a professor of economics at VU University Amsterdam and a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute (Email: ).
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Lennart Ziegler
Lennart Ziegler is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Vienna (Email: ).
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Abstract

We conduct a field experiment to evaluate labor market speeddates where unemployed workers meet temporary employment agencies. Participation in such events increases immediate job finding by 6-7 percentage points. Afterwards employment effects diminish, suggesting that temporary employment has no long-lasting effect on employment prospects. While the intervention is cost effective for the UI administration, higher labor earnings of treated job seekers do not compensate for the decline in benefit payments. Survey evidence shows that speeddate participation increases job search motivation and reduces reservation wages. These findings concur with predictions of a model where job seekers update their labor market beliefs.

Keywords:
  • Matching events
  • active labor market policies
  • randomized experiment
  • temporary work
  • job search behavior
JEL Classification Numbers:
  • J64
  • J65
  • C21
  • C93

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Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler
Journal of Human Resources Jun 2022, 1021-11946R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.1021-11946R2

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Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler
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