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Michael Rosholm
Former Editor, Program evaluation

Aarhus University, Denmark, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author, Former Editor

Current position

Professor, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University; Research Director, TrygFondens Centre for Child Research, Denmark

Research interest

The effects of active labor market policies and schooling outcomes on individuals and firms; the effects of interventions aimed at children and youth

Website

http://bit.ly/Rosholm_IZApage

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Member of Chairmanship, the Danish Economic Council, 2006–2012; Member of the Expert Committee on Active Labor Market Policy Reform (Carsten Koch Committee, 2013–2014); Member of the UI Benefit Reform Commission (2014–2015)

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Aarhus, 1998

Selected publications

  • “The effectiveness of active labor market policies: Evidence from a social experiment using non-parametric bounds.” Labour Economics 24 (2013): 58–67 (with J. Vikström and M. Svarer).

  • “Choosing the best training programme: Is there a case for statistical treatment rules?” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 72:2 (2010): 172–201 (with J. Staghøj and M. Svarer).

  • “Is labour market training a curse for the unemployed?: Evidence from a social experiment.” Journal of Applied Econometrics 24:2 (2009): 338–365 (with L. Skipper).

  • “Estimating the threat effect of active labour market programmes.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 110:2 (2008): 385–401 (with M. Svarer).

  • “Rent control and unemployment duration.” Journal of Public Economics 89:11–12 (2005): 2165–2181 (with J. R. Munch and M. Svarer).

article(s)

  • Do case workers help the unemployed?

    Evidence for making a cheap and effective twist to labor market policies for unemployed workers

    Michael Rosholm, August 2014
    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers—who can provide advice and information on what jobs to look for, and how to search, and give moral support, as well as monitor search intensity—are a simple and effective option for policymakers to help the unemployed find work.
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