%0 Report
        %A Weber, Andrea
%A Hofer, Helmut
        %T Employment Effects of Early Interventions on Job Search Programs
        %D 2004
        %8 2004 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 1076
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1076
        %X We investigate the dependence of the program effect on varying entry times for a low cost
job-search assistance program in Austria. The Austrian targeting policy is to admit every
unemployed to a job-search program before the fourth month. The program effect is
measured by a shift in the transition rate into employment upon program entry, using the
timing-of-events method. Our findings are that the program effect is positive and does not
vary significantly for program entries during the first year of unemployment, but it drops
drastically thereafter.
        %K active labour market policy
%K early intervention
%K treatment effect
%K multivariate duration model