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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Koenig, Felix |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Can helping the sick hurt the able: incentives, information and disruption in a welfare reform |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
The Economic Journal |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
129(624), Nov 2019. p. 3189–3218 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The UK Jobcentre Plus reform sharpened bureaucratic incentives to help disability benefit recipients (relative to unemployment insurance recipients) into jobs. In the long run, the policy raised exits off diasability benefits by 10% and left unemployment outflows roughly unchanged, consistent with (i) beneficial effects of reorganising welfare offices for both groups, and (ii) a shift in bureaucrats' efforts towards getting disability benefit recipients into jobs relative to those on unemployment benefit. The policy accounted for about 30% of the decline in the aggregate disability rolls between 2003 and 2008. In the short run, however, we detect a reduction in unemployment exits and no effect on disability exits, suggesting important initial disruption effects from the big reorganisation. This highlights the difficulty of welfare reform as policymakers may focus on the short-run political costs rather than the long-run economic benefits. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Disability |
| 9 (RLIN) |
17502 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Disability benefit recipients - UK |
| 9 (RLIN) |
17503 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Unemployment - UK |
| 9 (RLIN) |
17504 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Petrongolo, Barbara |
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17505 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Van Reenen, John |
| 9 (RLIN) |
17506 |
| 906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) |
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| Subject DIP |
Disabled |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Item type |
Articles |
