Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
评估挪威针对就业困难的社会救助领取者的综合激活项目，发现该项目通过提供定制康复、培训和慷慨的稳定福利，显著提高了就业前景。
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.