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A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

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Behncke, Stefanie
Frölich, Markus
Lechner, Michael

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This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons 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 4 percentage points if caseworker and unemployed 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.

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Soziale Schichtung Arbeitslosigkeit Gruppe Soziale Schichtung Arbeitslosigkeit Gruppe Caseworker social identity unemployment gender age nationality

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2008

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Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/ Institute for the Study of Labor: IZA Discussion Paper Series;3437

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  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Behncke, Stefanie
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Frölich, Markus
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Lechner, Michael
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2022-11-17T11:03:23Z
  • Made available on
    2008-05-29
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    2015-12-01T10:32:07Z
  • Made available on
    2022-11-17T11:03:23Z
  • Date of first publication
    2008
  • Abstract / Description
    This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons 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 4 percentage points if caseworker and unemployed 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.
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  • Persistent Identifier
    https://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-15945
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/1061
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8992
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Is part of
    IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 3437
  • Is part of series
    Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/ Institute for the Study of Labor: IZA Discussion Paper Series;3437
  • Keyword(s)
    Soziale Schichtung
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  • Keyword(s)
    Arbeitslosigkeit
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  • Keyword(s)
    Gruppe
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  • Keyword(s)
    Soziale Schichtung
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Arbeitslosigkeit
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  • Keyword(s)
    Gruppe
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  • Keyword(s)
    Caseworker
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  • Keyword(s)
    social identity
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  • Keyword(s)
    unemployment
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  • Keyword(s)
    gender
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  • Keyword(s)
    age
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  • Keyword(s)
    nationality
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
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  • DRO type
    report
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