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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816612
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348124
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351978
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353464
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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 exploit in a difference-in-differences approach a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305309
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Did the 2007 welfare reforms for low income parents in Australia increase welfare exits?
Fok, Yin King; McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment - the main welfare payment for this group - for at least one year. Specifically, the reforms introduced a requirement to engage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331998
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The heterogeneous effects of social assistence and unemployment insurance: Evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023
We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309445
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The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance: Evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023
We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480626