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Bratsberg, Bernt - 2018

We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance …

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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Hernaes, Oeystein - 2018

conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a …

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Can Welfare Conditionality Combat High School Dropout?

Hernaes, Oeystein - 2016

Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance … geographically differentiated implementation of conditionality. The causal effects are identified on the basis of larger …-than-expected within-municipality changes in outcomes that not only coincide with the local timing of conditionality implementation, but do …

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State Dependence in Welfare Benefits in a Non-Welfare Context

Ayhan, Sinem H. - 2016

This study contributes to the ongoing debate about welfare dependency centered on the western societies through an empirical analysis, within the context of a developing country. It examines state dependence in social assistance benefit receipt using longitudinal data from Turkey, where benefit...

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The Persistence of Welfare Participation

Andrén, Thomas - 2021

Welfare persistence is estimated in and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households. This is done within the framework of a time-stationary dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity. Three different types of persistence are...

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State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zhang, Xuelin - 2021

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years...

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Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation : The Role of Entry and Exit Rates

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hansen, Jörgen - 2021

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...

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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Haan, Peter - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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Welfare : Savings Not Taxation

Douglas, Roger - 2017

Many nations are seeking to reform their welfare states so that costs to the government can be reduced and the quality of outcomes improved. As a potential way to achieve these aims, there has been a surge of interest in the Singaporean model which features compulsory savings accounts and...

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Take-Up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits

Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022

In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We develop a simple...

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