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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 2157180
Author(s) Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny
Author(s) at UniBasel Wunsch, Conny
Year 2011
Title Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Journal Health economics
Volume 20
Number 4
Pages / Article-Number 484-504
Abstract Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find that employment substantially increases (mental) health. The positive effects are mainly driven by males and individuals with bad initial health conditions and are largest for males with poor health. In contrast, the effects of welfare-to-work programmes, including subsidised jobs, are ambiguous and statistically insignificant for most outcomes.
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN/ISBN 1057-9230
URL http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.1615/full
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/49405/
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Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1002/hec.1615
PubMed ID http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21394818
ISI-Number 000288609700008
Document type (ISI) Article
 
   

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