Who Is Bowling Alone? Quantile Treatment Effects of Unemployment on Social Participation
Kunze, Lars (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Suppa, Nicolai (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)

Data:	2020
Resum:	This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on this relationship essentially estimate mean effects, we use quantile regression methods to provide a broader and more complete picture. To account for the potential endogeneity of job loss, we estimate quantile treatment effects (on the treated) based on entropy balancing and focus on unemployment due to plant closures. Using German panel data, we show that the effect of unemployment varies across the distribution of public social activities. It is large and negative for individuals in the middle and lower part of the distribution of public activities, whereas those participating a lot are not affected. By contrast, the effect of unemployment on private social participation is virtually zero for individuals at the lower part of the outcome distribution and weakly positive in the middle. Our findings suggest that active labor market policies should account for targetgroup specific elements, tailored to those individuals which are most adversely affected by unemployment.
Ajuts:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación IJCI-2017-33950 European Commission 637768
Nota:	The author gratefully acknowledges funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities' Juan de la Cierva Research Grant Programs (IJCI-2017-33950), the European Research Council (ERC-2014-StG637768, EQUALIZE project); and the CERCA Programme, Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Col·lecció:	SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research
Document:	Working paper
Matèria:	Unemployment ; Social participation ; Plant closure ; Quantile treatment effects ; Entropy balancing
ISBN:	1864-6689
Publicat a:	SOEPpapers, Núm. 1077 (2020) , ISSN 1864-6689

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