Expectations and Search Behaviour
- Project title: The Interplay between Individuals' Expectations, Active Labour Market Policies, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes
- Funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Project duration: 2018-2022
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Marco Caliendo
- Participants: Aiko Schmeißer, Sophie Wagner
Short Description
The aim of this research project is to provide a more profound understanding of the job search process considering the interplay with job seekers expectations and consequences for realised labour market outcomes. The project incorporates subjective beliefs about future ALMP participation in a job search framework and tests the derived hypothesis by exploiting a unique combination of survey and administrative data for a sample of fresh entries into unemployment in Germany. The findings are expected to give new insights into the job search process in general, as well as into the participation in ALMP programmes and their long-term effects, thus helping policy makers to increase the efficiency when allocating ALMP programmes and stimulate early exits from unemployment by exploiting anticipation effects.
Publications
- Caliendo, M., Mahlstedt, R., van den Berg, G. and Vikström, J. (202x): Side Effects of Labor Market Policies, CEPA Discussion Paper No. 22, forthcoming in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
- Caliendo, M. and Tübbicke, S. (2022): Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed affect Participants’ Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies, Evaluation Review, 46(5), 517-554.
- Caliendo, M., Mahlstedt, R. and Künn, S. (2022): The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility [previous title: Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes], Discussion Paper No. 15011, IZA Bonn.
- Mahlstedt, Robert (2020): Subjective Expectations, Perceived Incentives and the Effectiveness of Labor Market Programs