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Title: How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations; the Effects of Distance

Author(s): Brian Krogh Graversen and Jan C. van Ours

Publication Date: March 2009

Keyword(s): Activation program, Experiment, Unemployment duration and Unemployment insurance

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence of the unemployed worker and the place where the activation took place. We also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm that activation programs mainly work because they are compulsory and unemployed don't like them.

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Krogh Graversen, B and van Ours, J. 2009. 'How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations; the Effects of Distance'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7233