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| Title: | | Social insurance networks  |
| Authors: | | Markussen, Simen Røed, Knut |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6446 |
| Abstract: | | Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed effects methodology that accounts for endogenous group formation, contextual interactions, and time-constant as well as time-varying confounders. We report evidence that social insurance dependency is contagious. The estimated network effects are both quantitatively and statistically significant, and they rise rapidly with relational closeness in a way that establishes endogenous social interaction as a central causal mechanism. Social interactions do not cross ethnic borders. |
| Subjects: | | social interaction social multiplier work norms peer effects |
| JEL: | | C31 H55 I38 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201207127091 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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