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Prison Work and Convict Rehabilitation
Zanella, Giulio - 2020
I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829206
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Early Interventions and Disability Insurance : Experience from a Field Experiment
Engström, Per - 2012
This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We find that the early interventions – in contrast to what is expected – increase the inflow into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106016
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Getting Disabled Workers Back to Work : How Important are Economic Incentives?
Fevang, Elisabeth - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088327
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Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
Markussen, Simen - 2014
reduced work capacity. The program offers a combination of tailored rehabilitation, training and job practice, and a generous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052195
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Prison Rehabilitation Programs : Efficiency and Targeting
Arbour, William; Lacroix, Guy; Marchand, Steeve - 2021
upon release. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration can lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown …. This paper finds that participation in social rehabilitation programs while incarcerated can significantly reduce … for successful rehabilitation. We also find considerable heterogeneous program treatment effects: inmates with a high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251535
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The Worth of Cities in Germany
Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2023
This paper extends the urban growth model of Duranton and Puga (2022) to explore the impact of cities on local firms and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies and a non-linear specification of human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350676
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Who is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023
In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in response to the annexation of Crimea and Russia's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356495
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Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth : Evidence from Germany
Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; GIUPPONI, … - 2023
We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356760
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Intergenerational Scars : The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356976
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756895