TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gautier, Pieter A.
AU  - Muller, Paul
AU  - Klaauw, Bas van der
AU  - Rosholm, Michael
AU  - Svarer, Michael
        TI  - Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance
        PY  - 2012/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6748
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6748
        AB  - Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the nonparticipants in the experiment regions find jobs slower after the introduction of the activation program (relative to workers in other regions). We then estimate an equilibrium search model. This model shows that a large scale role out of the activation program decreases welfare, while a standard partial microeconometric cost-benefit analysis would conclude the opposite.
        KW  - job search
KW  - policy-relevant treatment effects
KW  - randomized experiment
KW  - externalities
KW  - indirect inference
        ER  -