Unemployed or disabled? Disability screening and labor market outcomes of youths

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This paper examines the effect of being granted temporary disability insurance (TDI), as opposed to a non-health related benefit, on later labor market outcomes of youths who are seeking temporary income support from the state. In Norway, there has been a development over time towards a more lenient screening to TDI, and this development has been more pronounced in some municipalities than in others. Using local screening leniency as an instrument for TDI receipt, I find that being granted TDI benefits significantly reduces later labor market attachment of youths whose benefit receipt would differ according to their municipality of residence, and the year of entry to the benefit system.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Memorandum ; No. 05/2019

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions ; Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Social Security and Public Pensions
• Subject: Social insurance ; disability screening ; youth unemployment ; program evaluation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Schreiner, Ragnhild C.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Oslo, Department of Economics
• (where): Oslo
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202634
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