State dependence in Swedish social assistance in the 1990s: What happened to those who were single before the recession?

Arbeitspapier

Using a dynamic discrete choice model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity and the initial conditions problem, we estimate the state dependence in Swedish social assistance for Swedish-born and foreign-born who were single in 1990 before the recession period started. The estimates of the structural state dependence for Swedish-born singles indicate that it is unaffected by the event of living together with a partner, and the effect is significantly lower for women than for men. For the foreign-born singles, the state dependence for those who stay single the whole decade is equally strong for men and women, and almost not affected when the foreign-born single started to live together with a foreign-born partner.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 10/2013

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy
• Subject: social assistance ; state dependence ; country of birth ; singles ; married/cohabitated ; unobserved heterogeneity ; initial conditions ; dynamic random effects probit model ; GHK simulator

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Andrén, Daniela ; Andrén, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Örebro University School of Business
• (where): Örebro
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/244496
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET