A Caseworker Like Me – Does The Similarity Between The Unemployed and Their Caseworkers Increase Job Placements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9707061 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefanie Behncke (0000-0002-1917-177X, Swiss National Bank, SEW, St. Gallen, and IZA, Bonn), Markus Frölich (IZA, University of Mannheim and SEW, St. Gallen and IFAU Uppsala), Michael Lechner (0000-0003-4308-1579, Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research (SEW), University of St. Gallen, ZEW, Mannheim, CEPR and PSI, London, IZA, Bonn and IAB, Nuremberg) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 549 |
| Pages | 1430-1459 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02382.x |
| OpenAlex | W2131843120 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 56 |
This article examines whether the chances of job placements improve if the unemployed are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 3 percentage points if the caseworker and his unemployed client belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g., same gender of caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching methods, are confirmed by several robustness checks. Copyright (C) The Author(s). Journal compilation (C) Royal Economic Society 2010
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Labour economics · Matching (statistics · Nationality · Political science · Propensity score matching · Statistics · Unemployment · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Economic Policies and Impacts · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |