Never give up? The persistence of welfare participation in Sweden

Thomas Andrén () and Daniela Andrén ()

No 5, Discussion Papers from Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI)

Abstract: Welfare persistence is estimated and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households during the 1990s. This is done within the framework of a dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial conditions problem and permanent unobserved heterogeneity. We control for three types of persistence in terms of observed and unobserved heterogeneity, serial correlation, and structural state dependence, the focus being on the latter measure. The results show that state dependence in Swedish welfare participation is relatively strong. This effect is three times as large for the foreign-born compared to Swedish-born, but when this effect is distributed over time, it disappears after three years for both groups. Contrary to previous studies, our results for foreignborn are that both country of origin and time in the country of destination have only small impacts on welfare participation.

Keywords: social assistance; welfare persistence; state dependence; unobserved heterogeneity; initial condition; dynamic probit model; GHK simulator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 I38 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11-27
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Journal Article: Never give up? The persistence of welfare participation in Sweden (2013)
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