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Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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...

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Getting Disabled Workers Back to Work: How Important Are Economic Incentives?

Fevang, Elisabeth; Hardoy, Inés; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the impacts of economic incentives on the duration and outcome of temporary disability insurance (TDI) spells. The analysis is based on a large quasi-experiment in Norway, with a complete overhaul of the TDI benefit system. Our findings show that the labor supply of TDI claimants...

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Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?

Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements and closure data collected from bankruptcy...

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The Rise in Absenteeism: Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time

Biorn, Erik; Gaure, Simen; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects model, we show that individual age-adjusted absence propensities have risen even more than...

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The Case for Presenteeism

Markussen, Simen; Mykletun, Arnstein; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Can activation requirements control moral hazard problems in public sickness absence insurance and accelerate recovery? Based on empirical analysis of Norwegian data, we show that it can. Activation requirements not only bring down benefit claims, they also reduce the likelihood that long-term...

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The Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

terms of final outcomes, but at the cost of protracted periods of benefit dependency first. …

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Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals

Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …

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Immigrant Enclaves and Crime

Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …

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Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks

Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Witt, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … percent in the six weeks following the July 7 bombings. During this time crime fell significantly in central relative to outer … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …

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The Crime Reducing Effect of Education

Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …

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