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Making Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Mandatory

Dahl, Espen S.; Hernaes, Øystein - 2022

Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming … in an activation program for all welfare recipients below the age of 30. Analyzing the program's staggered implementation … the law change only impacting the participation of recipients with low expected gain from activation. …

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

Hernaes, Øystein - 2018

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

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Welfare Activation and Youth Crime

Bratsberg, Bernt; Hernaes, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; … - 2018

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

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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...

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

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 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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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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Does Cutting Child Benefits Reduce Fertility in Larger Families? Evidence from the UK’s Two-Child Limit

Reader, Mary; Portes, Jonathan; Patrick, Ruth - 2022

We study the impact of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family on the fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the UK did not receive means-tested child benefits,...

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Adjusting Your Dreams? The Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behaviour

Goux, Dominique; Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Eric - 2014

At the end of middle school, many low achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disappointment and eventually lead them to dropout from high-school. Based on a randomized controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achieving...

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Adjusting Your Dreams? The Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behaviour

Goux, Dominique; Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Activation against Absenteeism: Evidence from a Sickness Insurance Reform in Norway

Hernaes, Øystein - 2017

I evaluate a program aimed at strictly enforcing a requirement that people on long-term sick leave be partly back at work unless explicitly defined as an exception. Employing the synthetic control method, I find that the reform reduced work-hours lost due to absenteeism by 12 % in the reform...

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