Ambition: Every speaker presents experiences from country respectively.
Setting: Informal
Open: for all
Preliminary program:
11:00-12:00 Kalle Moene, Norway, presents "The complementarity between financial markets and the welfarestate"
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Matz Dahlberg, Sweden, presents "On Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients in Sweden"
14:00-14:15 Break
14:15-15:15 Markus Jäntti, Finland, presents "Growth with equity? Recent experiences of the Finnish developmental state in light of its history"
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Torben Andersen, Denmark, presents "Reforms and developments of the danish welfare model"
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-17:45 Þórólfur Matthíasson, Iceland, presents "Life at the top of the world, one crash at a time"
Abstracts
"The complementarity between financial markets and the welfarestate"
Kalle Moene, jointly with Halvor Mehlum (Department of economics and ESOP, University of Oslo)
"On Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients in Sweden"
Matz Dahlberg (Uppsala University and The Institute for Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala, Sweden)
This paper investigates whether mandatory activation programs for welfare recipients have effects on welfare participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies, we are able to capture both entry and exit effects. The empirical analysis makes use of a Swedish welfare reform in which the city districts in Stockholm gradually implemented mandatory activation programs for individuals on welfare. Overall, we find that mandatory activation of welfare recipients reduces overall welfare participation and increases employment. We also find that mandatory activation programs appear to work best for young people and for people born in non-Western countries. (IZA WP available here,)
"Growth with equity? Recent experiences of the Finnish developmental state in light of its history"
Markus Jäntti (Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University
"Life at the top of the world, one crash at a time"
Þórólfur Matthíasson (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Iceland)
"Reforms and developments of the danish welfare model"
Torben Andersen (Department of Economics, Unversity of Aarhus)