Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Archive
    • Supplementary Material
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Subscribers
    • Institutions
    • Advertisers
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Editorial Board
  • Connect
    • Feedback
    • Help
    • Request JHR at your library
  • Alerts
  • Call for Editor
  • Free Issue
  • Special Issue
  • Other Publications
    • UWP

User menu

  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
Journal of Human Resources
  • Other Publications
    • UWP
  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart
Journal of Human Resources

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Archive
    • Supplementary Material
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Subscribers
    • Institutions
    • Advertisers
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Editorial Board
  • Connect
    • Feedback
    • Help
    • Request JHR at your library
  • Alerts
  • Call for Editor
  • Free Issue
  • Special Issue
  • Follow uwp on Twitter
  • Follow JHR on Bluesky
Research ArticleArticles

The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-time Unemployment Benefits

Hélène Benghalem, Pierre Cahuc and Pierre Villedieu
Published online before print October 06, 2023, 0522-12328R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0522-12328R2
Hélène Benghalem
University of Lausanne;
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: helene.benghalem{at}gmail.com
Pierre Cahuc
Sciences Po Paris, IZA, CEPR;
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: pierre.cahuc{at}sciencespo.fr
Pierre Villedieu
Sciences Po Paris;
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: pierre.villedieu{at}sciencespo.fr
  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • Supplemental
  • Info & Metrics
  • References
  • PDF
Loading

References

    1. Alberto Abadie,
    2. Matthew M Chingos, and
    3. Martin R West
    . Endogenous stratification in randomized experiments. Review of Economics and Statistics, 100(4):567–580, 2018.
    OpenUrl
    1. Jaap H. Abbring and
    2. Gerard J. Van Den Berg
    . The nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models. Econometrica, 71(5):1491–1517, 2003.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
    1. Johannes Abeler and
    2. Simon Jäger
    . Complex tax incentives. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7(3):1–28, 2015.
    OpenUrl
    1. Laila Ait Bihi Ouali,
    2. Olivier Bargain, and
    3. Xavier Joutard
    . Partial unemployment insurance and hour decisions: Evidence from administrative data. Technical report, Aix Marseille University, 2020.
    1. Steffen Altmann,
    2. Armin Falk,
    3. Simon Jäger, and
    4. Florian Zimmermann
    . Learning about job search: A field experiment with job seekers in germany. Journal of Public Economics, 164: 33 – 49, 2018. ISSN 0047-2727.
    OpenUrl
    1. Steffen Altmann,
    2. Sofie Cairo,
    3. Robert Mahlstedt, and
    4. Alexander Sebald
    . Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (and Does It Matter)? Working Papers, University of Copenhagen, 2021.
    1. Stéphane Auray and
    2. Nicolas Lepage-Saucier
    . Stepping-stone effect of atypical jobs: Could the least employable reap the most benefits? Labour Economics, 68:101945, 2021.
    OpenUrl
    1. Michèle Belot,
    2. Philipp Kircher, and
    3. Paul Muller
    . Providing Advice to Jobseekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on Online Advice. The Review of Economic Studies, 86(4): 1411–1447, 10 2018.
    OpenUrl
    1. Saurabh Bhargava and
    2. Dayanand Manoli
    . Psychological frictions and the incomplete takeup of social benefits: Evidence from an irs field experiment. American Economic Review, 105(11):3489–3529, November 2015.
    OpenUrl
    1. Rebecca M. Blank and
    2. David E. Card
    . Recent trends in insured and uninsured unemployment: Is there an explanation. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106(4):1157–1189, 1991.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
    1. Kay Blaufus,
    2. Malte Chirvi,
    3. Hans-Peter Huber,
    4. Ralf Maiterth, and
    5. Caren Sureth-Sloane
    . Tax misperception and its effects on decision making – literature review and behavioral taxpayer response model. European Accounting Review, pages 1–34, 2020.
    1. Erik Bloom,
    2. Indu Bhushan,
    3. David Clingingsmith,
    4. Rathavuth Hong,
    5. Elizabeth King,
    6. Michael Kremer,
    7. Benjamin Loevinsohn, and
    8. J Brad Schwartz
    . Contracting for health: evidence from cambodia. Brookings Institution, 2006.
    1. Tito Boeri and
    2. Pierre Cahuc
    . Labor market insurance policies in the twenty-first century. Annual Review of Economics, 15(1):forthcoming, 2023.
    1. René Böheim and
    2. Andrea Weber
    . The effects of marginal employment on subsequent labour market outcomes. German Economic Review, 12(2):381–408, 2011.
    OpenUrl
    1. Marco Caliendo,
    2. Steffen Künn, and
    3. Arne Uhlendorff
    . Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers: The relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality. Labour Economics, 42:177–193, 2016.
    OpenUrl
    1. Victor Chernozhukov,
    2. Mert Demirer,
    3. Esther Duflo, and
    4. Iván Fernández-Val
    . Generic machine learning inference on heterogenous treatment effects in randomized experiments. Working Paper 24678, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2018.
    1. Raj Chetty and
    2. Emmanuel Saez
    . Teaching the tax code: Earnings responses to an experiment with eitc recipients. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(1):1–31, January 2013.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed
    1. Bart Cockx,
    2. Christian Goebel, and
    3. Stéphane Robin
    . Can income support for part-time workers serve as a stepping-stone to regular jobs? an application to young long-term unemployed women. Empirical economics, 44(1):189–229, 2013.
    OpenUrl
    1. Bruno Crépon,
    2. Esther Duflo,
    3. Marc Gurgand,
    4. Roland Rathelot, and
    5. Philippe Zamora
    . Do Labor Market Policies have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(2):531–580, 2013.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
    1. Bruno Crépon,
    2. Marc Ferracci,
    3. Gregory Jolivet, and
    4. Gerard J. van den Berg
    . Information shocks and the empirical evaluation of training programs during unemployment spells. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 33(4):594–616, 2018.
    OpenUrl
    1. Janet Marion Currie
    . The take-up of social benefits, pages 80–148. Russell Sage Foundation, 12 2006.
    1. Matthew Darling,
    2. Christopher O’Leary,
    3. Irma Perez-Johnson,
    4. Jaclyn Lefkowitz,
    5. Ken Kline,
    6. Ben Damerow, and
    7. Randall Eberts
    . Encouragement emails increase participation in reemployment services. DOL Behavioral Interventions Project Brief, 42:1–5, April 2016.
    OpenUrl
    1. Mathias Dolls,
    2. Philipp Doerrenberg,
    3. Andreas Peichl, and
    4. Holger Stichnoth
    . Reprint of: Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions? Journal of Public Economics, 171:105–116, 2019.
    OpenUrl
    1. Susanne. Ek Spector
    . Should unemployment insurance cover partial unemployment? IZA World of Labor, (199), October 2015.
    1. Per Engström,
    2. Eskil Forsell,
    3. Johannes Hagen, and
    4. Arnaldur Stefánsson
    . Increasing the takeup of the housing allowance among swedish pensioners: a field experiment. International Tax and Public Finance, 26(6):1353–1382, 2015.
    OpenUrl
    1. Rainer Eppel and
    2. Helmut Mahringer
    . Getting a lot out of a little bit of work? the effects of marginal employment during unemployment. Empirica, 46:381–408, 2019.
    OpenUrl
    1. Henry S. Farber,
    2. Dan Silverman, and
    3. Till M. von Wachter
    . Factors determining callbacks to job applications by the unemployed: An audit study. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 3(3):168–201, 2017.
    OpenUrl
    1. Amy Finkelstein and
    2. Matthew J Notowidigdo
    . Take-up and targeting: Experimental evidence from snap. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(3):1505–1556, August 2019.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
    1. Ronald Aylmer Fisher
    . Design of experiments. Br Med J, 1(3923):554–554, 1936.
    OpenUrlFREE Full Text
    1. François Fontaine and
    2. Andreas Ketteman
    . Quasi-experimental evidence on take-up and the value of unemployment insurance. Manuscript, Paris School of Economics, July 2019.
    1. Florent Fremigacci and
    2. Antoine Terracol
    . Subsidized temporary jobs: lock-in and stepping stone effects. Applied economics, 45(33):4719–4732, 2013.
    OpenUrl
    1. Thomas Fujiwara and
    2. Leonard Wantchekon
    . Can informed public deliberation overcome clientelism? experimental evidence from benin. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(4):241–55, 2013.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
    1. Xavier Gabaix
    . Inattention. In Douglas Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson, editors, Handbook of Behavioral Economics, volume 2, chapter 4, pages 261–343. Elsevier, 2019.
    OpenUrl
    1. Pieter Gautier,
    2. Paul Muller,
    3. Bas van der Klaauw,
    4. Michael Rosholm, and
    5. Michael Svarer
    . Estimating equilibrium effects of job search assistance. Journal of Labor Economics, 36 (4):1073–1125, 2018.
    OpenUrl
    1. Michael Gerfin,
    2. Michael Lechner, and
    3. Heidi Steiger
    . Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work? aneconometric analysis of two different schemes. Labour economics, 12(6):807–835, 2005.
    OpenUrl
    1. Anna Godøy and
    2. Knut Røed
    . Unemployment insurance and underemployment. Labour, 30 (2):158–179, 2016.
    OpenUrl
    1. Jens Hainmueller
    . Entropy balancing for causal effects: A multivariate reweighting method to produce balanced samples in observational studies. Political analysis, 20(1):25–46, 2012.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
    1. Nahomi Ichino and
    2. Matthias Schündeln
    . Deterring or displacing electoral irregularities? spillover effects of observers in a randomized field experiment in ghana. The Journal of Politics, 74(1):292–307, 2012.
    OpenUrl
    1. Sabina Issehnane,
    2. Fabrice Gilles,
    3. Léonard Moulin,
    4. Leila Oumeddour, and
    5. Florent Sari
    . Le recours à l’activité réduite: déterminants et trajectoires des demandeurs d’emploi. 2016.
    1. Laura Khoury
    . Unemployment Benefits and the Timing of Redundancies. PSE Working Papers n°2019-14, 2021.
    1. Andreas R Kostøl and
    2. Andreas S Myhre
    . Labor supply responses to learning the tax and benefit schedule. American Economic Review, 111(11):3733–66, 2021.
    OpenUrl
    1. Tomi Kyyrä
    . Partial unemployment insurance benefits and the transition rate to regular work. European economic review, 54(7):911–930, 2010.
    OpenUrl
    1. Tomi Kyyrä,
    2. Pierpaolo Parrotta, and
    3. Michael Rosholm
    . The effect of receiving supplementary ui benefits on unemployment duration. Labour Economics, 21:122–133, 2013.
    OpenUrl
    1. Thomas Le Barbanchon
    . Taxes today, benefits tomorrow. Working Paper, 2020.
    1. Thomas Le Barbanchon and
    2. Pauline Gonthier
    . Activité réduite: les allocataires sont-ils sensibles aux effets de seuil? Etudes et Recherches, (8), 2016.
    1. David S Lee,
    2. Pauline Leung,
    3. Christopher J O’Leary,
    4. Zhuan Pei, and
    5. Simon Quach
    . Are sufficient statistics necessary? nonparametric measurement of deadweight loss from unemployment insurance. Working Paper 25574, National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2019.
    1. Ioana Marinescu and
    2. Daphné Skandalis
    . Unemployment insurance and job search behavior. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 136(2):887–931, May 2021. ISSN 0033-5533. doi: 10.1093/qje/qjaa037.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
    1. Brian P. McCall
    . Unemployment insurance rules, joblessness, and part-time work. Econometrica, 64(3):647–682, 1996.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
    1. Leonardo Melosi
    . Signalling Effects of Monetary Policy. The Review of Economic Studies, 84(2):853–884, 2016.
    OpenUrl
    1. Giuseppe Moscarini
    . Excess Worker Reallocation. The Review of Economic Studies, 68 (3):593–612, 07 2001. ISSN 0034-6527. doi: 10.1111/1467-937X.00182. URL https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-937X.00182.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
    1. Emi Nakamura and
    2. Jón Steinsson
    . High-Frequency Identification of Monetary Non-Neutrality: The Information Effect. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3):1283–1330, 2018.
    OpenUrl
    1. Christopher O’Leary
    . An evaluation of the washington state unemployment insurance earnings deduction experiment. Technical report, Washington State Employment Security Department, 1997.
  1. Unédic. Enquête auprès des allocataires de l’assurance chômage en activité réduite [link]. Unédic, 2012.
    1. Gerard J. van den Berg and
    2. Bas van der Klaauw
    . Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers: Theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment. International Economic Review, 47(3):895–936, 2006.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
    1. Jan C Van Ours
    . The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs. Journal of Comparative Economics, 32(1):37–55, 2004.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
    1. Alwyn Young
    . Channeling fisher: Randomization tests and the statistical insignificance of seemingly significant experimental results. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(2): 557–598, 2019.
    OpenUrl
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

Journal of Human Resources: 60 (6)
Journal of Human Resources
Vol. 60, Issue 6
1 Nov 2025
  • Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents (PDF)
  • Cover (PDF)
  • Index by author
  • Front Matter (PDF)
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Journal of Human Resources.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-time Unemployment Benefits
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Journal of Human Resources
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Journal of Human Resources web site.
Citation Tools
The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-time Unemployment Benefits
Hélène Benghalem, Pierre Cahuc, Pierre Villedieu
Journal of Human Resources Oct 2023, 0522-12328R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0522-12328R2

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Share
The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-time Unemployment Benefits
Hélène Benghalem, Pierre Cahuc, Pierre Villedieu
Journal of Human Resources Oct 2023, 0522-12328R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0522-12328R2
Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One
Bookmark this article

Jump to section

  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • Supplemental
  • Info & Metrics
  • References
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • No citing articles found.
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • Prescription for Disaster
  • Occupation and temperature-related mortality in Mexico
  • Employers’ Language Proficiency Requirements and Hiring of Immigrants
Show more Articles

Similar Articles

Keywords

  • Unemployment Insurance
  • Part-time unemployment benefits
  • Lock-in effects
  • Unemployment duration
  • H5
  • J64
  • J65
UW Press logo

© 2026 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

Powered by HighWire