%0 Report
        %A Markussen, Simen
%A Røed, Knut
        %T Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8245
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8245
        %X We evaluate a comprehensive activation program in Norway targeted at hard-to-employ social assistance claimants with reduced work capacity. The program offers a combination of tailored rehabilitation, training and job practice, and a generous, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self-supporting employment. Our evaluation strategy exploits a geographically staggered program introduction, and the causal effects are identified on the basis of changes in employment prospects that coincide with local program implementation in a way that correlates with the predicted probability of becoming a participant. We find that the program raised employment prospects considerably.
        %K treatment effects
%K social insurance
%K vocational rehabilitation
%K poverty
%K program evaluation