TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Weber, Andrea
AU  - Hofer, Helmut
        TI  - Employment Effects of Early Interventions on Job Search Programs
        PY  - 2004/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1076
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1076
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - active labour market policy
KW  - early intervention
KW  - treatment effect
KW  - multivariate duration model
        ER  -