TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lalive, Rafael
        TI  - Social Interactions in Unemployment
        PY  - 2003/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 803
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp803
        AB  - This paper studies the relevance of social interactions among the unemployed. Identification
is based on a salient and selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment
benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change affects entitled individuals not
only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference
group. Moreover, this spillover effect of the policy should also be observed in the non-entitled
group. Results indicate that there are strong indirect effects on the entitled, strong positive
spillovers on the non-entitled, and that social interactions are about as important as the direct
effects of the policy change.
        KW  - social interactions
KW  - social multiplier
KW  - unemployment
KW  - quasi-experiment
        ER  -