Unemployment Duration and the Restart Effect: Some Experimental Evidence
利用实验数据分析英国重启计划对长期失业者的影响，发现该计划能显著缩短失业持续时间，并通过竞争风险模型揭示不同退出渠道的作用差异。
In this paper we analyse the effect of ihe Restart programme in the United Kingdom. This \nprogramme consisis of an interview of tbe long-term unemployed to counsel them on effective job \nsearch. Failure to attend the interview carries the threat of the cessation of unemployment benefits. \nThe results, using experimental data, indicate that the programme has a significant effect of \nreducing unemployment duration. Estimation of an independent competing risks model \ndistinguishing between exits from unemployment to: a job, a training placement or to signing-off \nunemployment benefit shows that the channels through which Restart works differs according to \nexit type.