TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Berg, Gerard J. van den
AU  - Kesternich, Iris
AU  - Müller, Gerrit
AU  - Siflinger, Bettina M.
        TI  - Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker
        PY  - 2019/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12835
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12835
        AB  - We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of reciprocity as a personality trait, to a unique set of register data on all unemployed coached by the same team of caseworkers and their treatments. We find that the combination of a higher negative reciprocity and a stricter regime have a negative interaction effect on search effort exerted by the unemployed. The results are stronger for males than for females. Stricter regimes may therefore drive long-term unemployed males with certain types of social preferences further away from the labor market. 
        KW  - monitoring
KW  - active labor market policy
KW  - behavioral response
KW  - welfare
KW  - job search
        ER  -