Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177144 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11340
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform reduced welfare uptake and for women had large, positive effects in the lower part of the earnings distribution. The effect on the distribution of total income is also positive, thus gains in earnings more than offset reduced welfare benefits. Fewer welfare payments and smaller caseloads make the policy highly cost-effective.
Subjects: 
social assistance
activation
conditionality
welfare reform
labor supply
quantile treatment effects
JEL: 
C21
D31
H55
I38
J18
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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