TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
AU  - Dahmann, Sarah C.
AU  - Gielen, Anne C.
        TI  - The Intergenerational Effects of Requiring Unemployment Benefit Recipients to Engage in Non-Search Activities
        PY  - 2020/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13618
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13618
        AB  - We use a quasi-experimental design and national administrative data to analyze the intergenerational effects of introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training) in addition to job search. The young adults (aged 23-28) we study were in early adolescence in 1999 when the MOI was introduced. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we find that those young adults whose fathers were subject to the MOI have a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed investigation suggests that completion of the mandated activities, role modeling, changes in attitudes, improved health, and greater support and stability are potential channels for this effect.
        KW  - active labor market policy
KW  - Mutual Obligations Initiative
KW  - intergenerational treatment effects
KW  - unemployment
        ER  -