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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21163
来源ID	Working Paper 21163
	Can helping the sick hurt the able? Incentives, information and disruption in a disability-related welfare reform
	Nitika Bagaria; Barbara Petrongolo; John Van Reenen
发表日期	2015-05-18
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that integrated disability benefits with unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the disabled (relative to those on UI). We exploit the fact that policy was rolled-out quasi-randomly across geographical areas. In the long-run the policy improved the outflows from disability benefits by 6% and had an (insignificant) 1% increase in unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives to shift effort towards helping the disabled find jobs and away from helping the unemployed. Interestingly, in the short-run the policy had a negative impact for both groups, suggesting important disruption effects. We estimate that it takes about six years for the estimated benefits of the reform to exceed its costs, which is beyond the time horizon of most policy-makers.
主题	Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Unemployment and Immigration
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21163
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578838
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nitika Bagaria,Barbara Petrongolo,John Van Reenen. Can helping the sick hurt the able? Incentives, information and disruption in a disability-related welfare reform. 2015.