Labor Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighborhood Characteristics

Bas van der Klaauw and Jan van Ours

No 102, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates how in addition to personal characteristics the neighborhood affects the individual transition rate from welfare to work. We use a unique administrative database on welfare recipients in Rotterdam, the second largest city of The Netherlands. We find that the exit rate to work of young Dutch welfare recipients is influenced by the neighborhood unemployment rate. Other neighborhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the transition from welfare to work.

Keywords: Welfare to work; unemployment duration; spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2000-01
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Published - published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (5), 957-985

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Working Paper: Labour Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighbourhood Characteristics (2000)
Working Paper: Labor Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis using Neighborhood Characteristics (2000)
Working Paper: Labor Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighborhood Characterisitics (1999)
Working Paper: Labor Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighborhood Characterisitics (1999)
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