TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Markussen, Simen
AU  - Røed, Knut
        TI  - Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
        PY  - 2014/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8245
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8245
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - treatment effects
KW  - social insurance
KW  - vocational rehabilitation
KW  - poverty
KW  - program evaluation
        ER  -