Preventing NEETs during the Great Recession: the effects of mandatory activation programs for young welfare recipients

Empirical Economics - Tập 62 - Trang 749-777 - 2021
Emile Cammeraat1, Egbert Jongen1,2,3, Pierre Koning1,4,3
1Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
2CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands
3IZA, Bonn, Germany
4Tinbergen Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tóm tắt

We study the impact of mandatory activation programs for young welfare recipients in the Netherlands. What makes this reform unique is that it clashed head on with the Great Recession. We use differences-in-differences and data for the period 1999–2012 to estimate the effects of this reform. We find that the reform reduced the number of welfare recipients but had no effect on the number of NEETs (individuals not in employment, education or training). The absence of employment effects contrasts with previous studies on the impact of mandatory activation programs, which we argue is due to the reform taking place during a severe economic recession.

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