TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
        TI  - The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs
        PY  - 2002/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 527
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp527
        AB  - Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their
effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get
locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular job. This paper uses an
administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment
spells. The focus of the analysis is temporary subsidized jobs. By exploiting the variation in
the duration of these jobs it is possible to investigate whether or not the locking-in effect is
important. It turns out that it is.

        KW  - unemployment
KW  - active labor market policy
KW  - duration models
KW  - subsidized jobs
        ER  -