Summary This paper evaluates a job search assistance program for unemployed teachers where the assignment to is dynamic. We discuss methodology of estimating dynamic treatment effects and identification conditions. In empirical analysis, we use administrative data from unique institutional environment in which observe all variables determining program. allows us compare results discrete‐time ev...

This study investigates empirically the effects of a pilot project in which unemployed persons were used as temporary employment counsellors. Economic theory clearly points in the direction of a positive relation between search intensity and exit from unemployment. The fundamental concept of the project was the use of unemployed, who underwent customised training, to assist other unemployed in ...

The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We compare employed and unemployed job seekers in terms of their individual characteristics, preferences over working hours, job-search strategies and employment hi...