Engineering an incentive to search for workA comparison groups approach
Engineering an incentive to search for work
A comparison groups approach
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05.2015Verlag / herausgebende Einrichtung
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of BonnVerlagsort
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Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A “culture of unemployment” may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of unemployment benefits conditional on engagement in an incentive-enhancing activity (for example, work under state-sponsored employment schemes or participation in work-site-based training programs), a government can engineer a revision of the reference groups of an unemployed individual in order to induce him to seek work.
Schlagwörter
Unemployment benefits, Social comparisons, Relative deprivation
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300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie 320 Politik 330 WirtschaftErstpublikation
https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/zef_dp_199.pdfReihe, Nummer
ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; 199Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna: Engineering an incentive to search for work : A comparison groups approach. Bonn: Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, 2015. In: ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy, 199.
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author = {{Oded Stark} and {Marcin Jakubek} and {Martyna Kobus}},
title = {Engineering an incentive to search for work : A comparison groups approach},
publisher = {Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn},
year = 2015,
month = may,
series = {ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy},
volume = 199,
note = {Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A “culture of unemployment” may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of unemployment benefits conditional on engagement in an incentive-enhancing activity (for example, work under state-sponsored employment schemes or participation in work-site-based training programs), a government can engineer a revision of the reference groups of an unemployed individual in order to induce him to seek work.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/12186}
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