Social insurance networks

Arbeitspapier

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 time-constant as well as time-varying confounders. We report evidence that social insurance dependency is contagious. The estimated network effects are both quantitatively and statistically significant, and they rise rapidly with relational closeness in a way that establishes endogenous social interaction as a central causal mechanism. Social interactions do not cross ethnic borders.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6446

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models ; Social Security and Public Pensions ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
• Subject: social interaction ; social multiplier ; work norms ; peer effects ; Sozialhilfeempfänger ; Soziale Gruppe ; Soziale Beziehungen ; Arbeitsethik ; Norwegen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Markussen, Simen ; Røed, Knut
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58671
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201207127091
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET