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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? : the effects of a Norvegian workfare reform on earnings, education, and poverty
(Discussion Papers;No. 533, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success both in terms of equality and economic growth. However, it has recently become evident that subgroups of the population with weak ... -
Couples' parental leave practices : the role of the workplace situation
(Discussion Papers;No. 561, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: We address the issue of the relationship between couples’ parental leave practices and their workplace situation. This analysis is based on information from Norwegian administrative registers on around 200 000 ... -
Do welfare-to-work initiatives work? : evidence from an activation programme targeted at social security recipients in Norway
(Discussion Papers;No. 519, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: This paper presents results from an evaluation of a Norwegian initiative to combat poverty launched in 2003. Central to the plan is a broad spectrum of rehabilitation and activation measures intended to help ... -
Does welfare policy affect residential choices? : evidence from a natural experiment
(Discussion Papers;No. 503, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: This paper studies how changes in welfare benefit levels affect welfare recipients’ residential choices. Although several empirical studies have stressed that welfare policy may affect residential choices of ... -
Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants
(Discussion papers;803, Working paper, 2015-03)Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate ... -
The effects of benefits on disability uptake
(Discussion Papers; No. 576, Working paper, 2009)I study the effects of the level of disability benefits on disability uptake. Estimation of such effects is difficult because individual levels of disability pension benefits are closely related to individual characteristics ... -
Entry into work following childbirth among mothers in Norway. Recent trends and variation
(Discussion papers;702, Working paper, 2012-09)Universal parental leaves with job protection and earnings compensation increase women’s attachment to the labour market, but very long leaves may have negative consequences both at the individual and the societal level. ... -
Evaluating alternative basic income mechanisms : a simulation for European countries
(Discussion Papers; 578, Working paper, 2009)We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in five European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Norway, Portugal and United Kingdom. ... -
Family welfare cultures
(Discussion papers;782, Working paper, 2014-06)Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a ... -
Labour supply effects of early retirement provision
(Discussion papers;717, Working paper, 2012-11)The main objective of this paper is to estimate labour supply effects of an early retirement programme in Norway. Detailed administrative data are employed in order to characterize full paths towards retirement and account ... -
Micro-level dynamics of social assistance receipt. Evidence from 4 European countries
(Discussion papers;797, Working paper, 2015-02)This paper presents a study of the monthly dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt – in particular the distribution of spell lengths and the incidence of repeat receipt – in four European countries: Luxembourg, the ... -
Social Interaction Effects in Disability Pension Participation. Evidence from Plant Downsizing
(Discussion Papers;No. 496, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: We estimate the magnitude of social interaction effects in disability pension participation among older workers in Norway. Specifically, we investigate how a worker’s propensity to draw disability benefits is ... -
The Effect of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization
(Discussion Papers;No. 435, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: We investigate the impact of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization in Norway. Plant downsizing substantially increases the disability entry rate of workers in affected plants. Workers originally ... -
Time aggregation and state dependence in welfare receipt
(Discussion papers;771, Working paper, 2014-03)Dynamic discrete-choice models have been an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. An assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional Markov process. This property ... -
U.S. versus Sweden. The effect of alternative in-work tax credit policies on labour supply of single mothers
(Discussion papers;761, Working paper, 2013-10)An essential difference between the design of the Swedish and the US in-work tax credit systems relates to their functional forms. Where the US earned income tax credit (EITC) is phased out and favours low and medium ... -
Variation in the quality of regional child welfare services
(Discussion Papers, No. 681, Working paper, 2012)While child welfare services of high quality are very important for many children, measuring quality is not a simple task. This paper presents a method for estimating differences in the quality of local child welfare ...