A caseworker like me - does the similarity between unemployed and caseworker increase job placements?
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This article examines whether the chances of job placements improve
if the unemployed are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the
same social group, defined by gender, age, education and
nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links
Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment
effects of about 3 percentage points if the caseworker and his
unemployed client belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a
single characteristic, e.g., same gender of caseworker and
unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These
results, obtained by statistical matching methods, are confirmed by
several robustness checks.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02382.x
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Journal paper
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lingua
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English
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journal article
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data di apparenza
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16-11-2010
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giornale
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The Economic Journal
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Editore
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Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford)
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ISSN
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0013-0133
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edizione del giornale
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120
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numero del giornale
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549
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pagine
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1430-1459
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blind review
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citation
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Behncke, S., Frölich, M., & Lechner, M. (2010). A caseworker like
me - does the similarity between unemployed and caseworker increase
job placements?. The Economic Journal, 120(549), 1430-1459.
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