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The Restart Effect and the Return to Full‐Time Stable Employment

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  • Peter Dolton
  • Donal O'Neill

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In this paper we use nonparametric and semiparametric estimation procedures to analyse whether the restart programme in the UK has had any effect on reducing unemployment duration. The restart programme consists of an interview of the long‐term unemployed to counsel them on effective job search. The statistical results utilize experimental data in which a control group does not receive the restart interview. The results show that the programme has had a significant effect (for the treatment group) of reducing the duration of unemployment. However, if we distinguish between exits to ‘any job’ and to full‐time jobs lasting at least 3 months we find that the treatment group is no different from the control group in exits to ‘stable jobs‘.

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  • Peter Dolton & Donal O'Neill, 1996. "The Restart Effect and the Return to Full‐Time Stable Employment," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 159(2), pages 275-288, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jorssa:v:159:y:1996:i:2:p:275-288
    DOI: 10.2307/2983174
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    1. Imbens, Guido W. & Pizer, William A., 2000. "The Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Missing Data," Discussion Papers 10596, Resources for the Future.
    2. van den Berg, Gerard J & Lindeboom, Maarten & Dolton, Peter J, 2004. "Survey non-response and unemployment duration," Working Paper Series 2004:12, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
    3. Guell, Maia & Petrongolo, Barbara, 2007. "How binding are legal limits? Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Spain," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(2), pages 153-183, April.
    4. G.E. Bijwaard, 2002. "Instrumental Variable Estimation for Duration Data: A Reappraisal of the Illinois Reemployment Bonus Experiment," Econometrics 0204001, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Donal O'Neill, 2000. "Evaluating Labour Market Interventions," Economics Department Working Paper Series n990300, Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - Maynooth.
    6. Gerard J. Van Den Berg & Maarten Lindeboom & Peter J. Dolton, 2006. "Survey non‐response and the duration of unemployment," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 169(3), pages 585-604, July.
    7. Denis Conniffe & Vanessa Gash & Philip J. O'Connell, 2000. "Evaluating State Programmes - “Natural Experiments” and Propensity Scores," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 31(4), pages 283-308.
    8. Schmelzer, Paul, 2011. "Unemployment and occupational mobility at the beginning of employment career in Germany and the UK," IAB-Discussion Paper 201125, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].

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