Case managers provide individual and comprehensive support to employees who have become incapable of working. Using data from a large insurance company we find that overall, 43.9% of the people in our sample could be reintegrated. Controlling for personal characteristics, we analyze the...

Using a rich and unique combined administrative-survey dataset, this paper explores how sensitive propensity score (PS) matching estimates of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) based on the selection-on-observables assumption are to typically unobserved covariates. Using a sample of German...

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a minimum income scheme (MIS) in the Basque Country, one of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions. In particular, we assess whether the policy delays entry into employment for recipients, as well as the extent to which activating policies aimed at enabling...

This study analyses the impact of mergers and acquisitions on performance of Indian pharmaceutical firms following the implementation of TRIPS in 1995. In order to identify adequately the effect of mergers, we investigate the impact on firm performance of the merged vis-a-vis the non-merged...

This article explores women community leaders’ relationship and interactions with criminal groups in Medellín, Colombia. Based on in-depth interviews in low-income neighborhoods, this article shows that women community leaders develop coping strategies to deal with the everyday violence that...

The Brazilian public food procurement program PAA is a federal government policy created to encourage family farming and fight food and nutritional insecurity of people in social vulnerability. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of PAA on the income and diversity of family...

This paper provides new evidence on why people who are eligible to receive a benefit do not apply for it, an occurrence most commonly referred to as "non-take-up". It examines the relationship between the characteristics of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) and the non-take-up rate achieved by...

This study aims to contribute to the evaluation effort on public policies for rural development and support for family farming based on the Agroamigo Program, developed since 2005, aimed at the low-income group of farmers living in municipalities within the area of operation of the Banco do...

Background The influence of both individual factors and, in particular, the regional labour market on the return to work after medical rehabilitation is to be analyzed based on comprehensive administrative data from the German Pension Insurance and Employment Agencies. Method For rehabilitation...

This study analysed co-operative members’ willingness to pay (WTP) for health insurance. The social capital theory was adopted to analyse the mediation role of trust issues on other variables determining co-operative members’ WTP for health insurance. A single Contingent Valuation Method...