Estimating the Effect of Counselling and Monitoring the Unemployed on Theirjob Finding Rate, Application Intensity and Matching Probability

This paper examines the impact of "Counselling and Monitoring" the unemployed on their job finding rate, application intensity and matching probability by using a semi-structural duration model in which the job finding rate is equal to the product of the application intensity and the matching probability. "Counselling and Monitoring" is an intensive guidance programme for unemployed people receiving unemployment benefits which should help them to escape from the state of unemployment as quickly as possible. The empirical results, based on a control-group approach, showthat "Counselling and Monitoring" the unemployed reduces the duration to find a job because guided people apply more than nonguided people, while keeping about the same matching probability.