Migration Effects of Welfare Benefit Reform
2009 (English)In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, ISSN 0347-0520, E-ISSN 1467-9442, Vol. 111, no 3, p. 511-526Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study tests for a migration response to the implementation of stricter rules for receiving welfare benefits (means-tested social assistance for individuals who lack sufficient work-related income), in the form of mandatory participation in activation programmes in Stockholm town districts. The results give no indications that activation programmes affect the moving choices of recipients of welfare benefits.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2009. Vol. 111, no 3, p. 511-526
Keywords [en]
Welfare migration, welfare-to-work, difference-in-difference-in-differences, H53, H70, I38, R23
National Category
Economics and Business
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-148294DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2009.01574.xISI: 000268960800004OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-148294DiVA, id: diva2:401825
2011-03-042011-03-042017-12-11Bibliographically approved