Title,Citation,Topic_area,Study_type,Study_evidence_rating,Outcome_effectiveness,Findings,Intervention_program,Topics,Target_population,Firm_characteristics,Geographic_setting,Original_publication_date,Original_publication_link,"Review Protocol" "Can compulsory dialogues nudge sick-listed workers back to work?","Markussen, S., Røed, K., & Schreiner, R. C. (2015). Can compulsory dialogues nudge sick-listed workers back to work? (IZA Discussion Paper No. 9090). Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).","Behavioral Insights","Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis","Causal Evidence Rating: Low Causal Evidence","Earnings and wages-Low-Favorable impacts Earnings and wages Public benefits receipt-Low-Favorable impacts Public benefit receipt","Summary: The study’s objective was to examine the impact of a compulsory dialogue meeting (DM) on the return to partial or full-time employment for long-term sick-listed workers in Norway. The authors compared differences in outcomes between long-term sick-listed workers whose absence started in July 2004 through June 2006 and those whose absence started in January 2009 through December 2010, during which time the DM program became compulsory. The authors used salary and social insurance data from the Norwegian Social Security Administration (SSA) to measure program impacts. The study found that increasing the probability of a sick-listed worker attending a DM resulted in a significant increase in base salary, for those who returned to full-time employment, of $1,436. It also resulted in a significantly lower probability of receiving temporary disability benefits two years later for those who returned to full-time employment (1.4 percent) and those who returned to either part- or full-time employment (2.3 percent). The quality of causal evidence presented in this report is low because the authors did not establish the comparability of the treatment and comparison groups. This means we are not confident that the estimated effects are attributable to compulsory DMs; other factors are likely to have contributed.","Dialogue Meeting (DM)","Behavioral Interventions","Unemployed, Adult",,International,2015,http://ftp.iza.org/dp9090.pdf,"Behavioral Insights Review Protocol" "Learning about job search: A field experiment with job seekers in Germany","Altmann, S., Falk, A., Jäger, S., & Zimmermann, F. (2015). Learning about job search: A field experiment with job seekers in Germany. Unpublished manuscript.","Behavioral Insights","Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis","Causal Evidence Rating: High Causal Evidence","Earnings and wages-Mod/high-No impacts Earnings and wages Employment-Mod/high-No impacts Employment","Summary: The study’s objective was to examine whether providing job search information to unemployed job seekers affected their labor market outcomes. German citizens identified as unemployed were randomly assigned to the treatment group, which was mailed an informational brochure, or to the control group, which was not mailed a brochure. The Integrated Employment Biographies, an administrative database available through the German Federal Employment Agency, was the primary data source for the study. The study did not find any statistically significant effects of the brochure on the employment or earnings outcomes of the treatment group relative to the control group. However, the study did find positive impacts of the brochure on earnings and employment outcomes for the subgroup of individuals who had been identified as being at risk of long-term unemployment. The quality of causal evidence presented in this report is high because it was based on a well-implemented randomized controlled trial. This means we are confident that the estimated effects are attributable to the informational brochure, and not to other factors.",,"Job search assistance and supportive services Behavioral interventions","Adult, Unemployed",,International,2015,https://www.cens.uni-bonn.de/team/board/armin-falk/afjz-job-search-dp-150509.pdf,"Behavioral Insights Review Protocol" "Reference-dependent job search: Evidence from Hungary","DellaVigna, S., Lindner, A., Reizer, B., & Schmieder, J. (2014). Reference-dependent job search: Evidence from Hungary. Unpublished working paper.","Behavioral Insights","Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis","Causal Evidence Rating: Low Causal Evidence","Public benefits receipt-Low-Favorable impacts Public benefit receipt","Summary: The study’s objective was to empirically test a behavioral model of job search using a reform in Hungary’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program. The authors compared rates of exit from unemployment in groups of claimants who entered UI before and after the reform’s implementation in November 2005. The authors used social security and UI data from Hungary’s Institute of Economics and National Employment Service. The study found support for the behavioral job search model and theorized that approximately budget-neutral transitions to two-step UI systems could speed claimants’ exit out of unemployment. The quality of causal evidence presented in this report is low because it cannot account for factors other than the UI program that also changed over the period of study and could also have influenced the outcomes of interest. This means we are not confident that the estimated effects are attributable to Hungary’s 2005 UI reform; other factors are likely to have contributed.","Hungary’s Unemployment Insurance Reform","Unemployment Insurance Behavioral Interventions Job search assistance and supportive services","Adult, Unemployed, Dislocated or displaced worker",,International,2014,http://eml.berkeley.edu/~sdellavi/wp/HungaryUIRD_wp_2014_07_20.pdf,"Behavioral Insights Review Protocol" "The effects of goal orientation on job search and reemployment: A field experiment among unemployed job seekers","van Hooft, E., & Noordzij, G. (2009). The effects of goal orientation on job search and reemployment: A field experiment among unemployed job seekers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(6), 1581-1590.","Behavioral Insights","Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis","Causal Evidence Rating: High Causal Evidence","Employment-Mod/high-Favorable impacts Employment","Summary: The study’s objective was to examine the effects of goal orientation—the way individuals frame their objectives in a given situation—on job search and reemployment among unemployed job seekers. The study was a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in which participants were assigned to one of three workshops: a learning goal-oriented (LGO) workshop, a performance goal-oriented (PGO) workshop, and a control workshop. The authors compared the job-search and reemployment outcomes of participants in the LGO or PGO workshops to the outcomes of those in the control workshop. The study found that participants in the LGO workshop were 22 percentage points more likely to be reemployed eight weeks after the workshop than were participants in the control workshop, a statistically significant difference. The quality of causal evidence presented in this report is high for the comparison of PGO versus control participants’ reemployment statuses because these outcomes derived from a well-conducted RCT with low attrition. This means we are confident that the estimated effects are attributable to workshop type and not to other factors. However, the quality of causal evidence presented in this report is low for the comparison of LGO and control participants’ job-search behaviors and reemployment statuses and the comparison of PGO and control participants’ job-search behaviors because these outcomes derived from an RCT with high attrition that did not control adequately for potential differences in the analytic samples. This means we are not confident that the estimated effects are attributable to workshop type; other factors are likely to have contributed.","the Workshops Studied","Behavioral Interventions","Unemployed, Adult",,International,2009,,"Behavioral Insights Review Protocol"