Amelie Schiprowski How Important Are Caseworkers In Helping the Unemployed To Find Work?
Amelie Schiprowski is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn and an Affiliate of the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo). Having completed her doctoral work at the University of Potsdam (2018), Schiprowski’s research focuses on Empirical Labor and Public Economics. Schiprowski was the 2020 recipient of the Joachim Herz Award in Economics.
Area of Research
Economics
since 2019
Assistant Professor in Economics
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) (more details)
since 2019
Research Fellow
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
since 2019
Research Affiliate
Institute for Economic Research (CESifo)
2018-2019
Research Associate
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
2018
Dr. rer. pol. in Economics
University of Potsdam (Universität Potsdam)
Summa cum laude
2013-2018
Research Affiliate
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
2012-2018
Research member
DIW Berlin Graduate Center
2010-2012
Master in Economics
Sciences Po and Ecole Polytechnique
2009-2010
Exchange Program in Economics
University of Pennsylvania
2007-2010
Undergraduate Studies
Sciences Po
Economics and Social Sciences
- American Economic Review
- Journal of Public Economics
- Labour Economics
- Member of the Research Cluster “ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy”
- Member of the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 “Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges”
Prizes
- Joachim Herz Award in Economics (2020)
- Ph.D. grant of the German Academic Foundation, Studienstiftung (2014-2017)
- Ph.D. grant of DIW Berlin (2012-2013)
- Study grant of the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD (2010-2011)
- Fulbright travel grant (2009-2010)
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Caseworkers try to help unemployed people to find work, providing support and assistance in regularly scheduled meetings. In this video, AMELIE SCHIPROWSKI seeks to quantify the economic value of these caseworker meetings. Relying on data from Swiss unemployment registers and focusing on the impact of unplanned caseworker absences, Schiprowski identifies a clear correlation between the frequency of caseworker meetings and the length of time a jobseeker spends out of work. Schiprowski also identifies significant variation in outcomes between different caseworkers and the effort to pin down what skills are most relevantin this regard is a clear focus for research going forward.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10885
The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences
- Amelie Schiprowski
- Published in 2020
