We evaluate a comprehensive activation program in Norway targeted at hard-to-employ social assistance claimants with reduced work capacity. The program offers a combination of tailored rehabilitation, training, and job practice, and a generous, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its primary aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self-supporting employment. Our evaluation strategy exploits a geographically staggered program introduction, and the causal effects are identified on the basis of changes in employment prospects that coincide with local program implementation in a way that correlates with the predicted probability of becoming a participant. We find that the program raised employment prospects considerably
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Country
Norway
Publication Year
2016
Labour market services
Counselling and monitoring
Training
Classroom/vocational training
On-the-job training
Other intervention types
Labour market status
Low-skilled unemployed
Vulnerable groups
Other disadvantaged
Funding Source
Other
Outcome Variable
Employment status
Income/wages
Data Source
Administrative
Evaluation Method
Regression
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