Detection of structural change is a critical empirical activity, but continuous 'monitoring' of series, for structural …

The paper exploits a unique social experiment carried out in 1988 in Sweden to identify the effect of monitoring on … sickness absence. The treatment consists of postponing the first formal point of monitoring during a sickness absence spell, a … sickness absence is found. A heterogeneity analysis reveals that monitoring affects men more than women. …

, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and employment subsidies. The results are remarkably uniform across studies. We …

When estimating the extent of e.g. excess use of public benefits one traditionally uses direct monitoring. Such direct … to information of increased monitoring. Through an extensive randomized social experiment we apply the method to one … on ordinary random monitoring (22.5 percent compared to 16 percent). The method is potentially applicable to a large …

sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. Our reading of the theoretical literature is …

doctor. Since health care is administrated at the county level, this means that monitoring is, to some extent, decentralized …