TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Jonassen, Anders B.
AU  - 2024
AU  - Bargain, Olivier B.
TI  - New Evidence on Welfare's Disincentive for the Youth Using Administrative Panel Data
SN  - 0034-6535
PB  - The Review of Economics and Statistics
KW  -  Administrative Panel Data
KW  -  Childless Unmarried Individuals
KW  -  Welfare's Disincentive
KW  -  Youth Employment in Denmark
KW  - Employment
N2  - We estimate the impact of social assistance on youth employment in Denmark, 2000 to 2006. For childless unmarried individuals, maximum welfare payments increased by 55% at age 25. Using administrative panel data, we find a significant disincentive effect among the low-skilled only, for whom employment fell by 2% to 3% and benefit take-up increased by 10% to 14%. Two-thirds of the effect is attributable to transitions from work to welfare and one-third to reduced labor market entry. Heterogeneous estimates along the earnings distribution show that employment responses are concentrated at very low earnings. We find no evidence of an age discontinuity in criminal activities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01191
ER  -