lowintensity counselling interventions may have no impact on movements into employment as evidence from the netherlands suggests van den berg and van der klaauw by contrast in an experiment in denmark early and frequent meetings with unemployed workers increased employment over the next two years by up to five weeks pedersen et al positive impacts on exits to employment have also been found for france suggesting in particular that intensive counselling can improve the quality of job matches thereby reducing unemployment recurrence crepon et al a recent trial from nevada in the united states shows that already a first meeting of jobseekers with counsellors expedited reemployment and helped participants to get relatively higher paying jobs although some of the impact occurred prior to the first meeting and is described as a threat effect the greater part of impact arose subsequent to the meeting and is described as a reemployment services effect