From welfare to work: does the neighborhood matter?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: van der Klaauw, B; van Ours, JC
• 署名单位: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Tilburg University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00133-5
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 957-985
• 关键词: welfare to work; Unemployment duration; Spillover effects; selection effects

摘要

This paper investigates whether individual transition rates from welfare to work are influenced by neighborhood effects. We use a unique administrative database on welfare recipients in Rotterdam, the second largest city of The Netherlands. We find that conditional on personal characteristics there is a negative relationship between the neighborhood unemployment rate and the transition rate from welfare to work of young Dutch welfare recipients. We do not find any neighborhood effects for older Dutch welfare recipients and non-Dutch welfare recipients. When performing some sensitivity analyses this result is robust to different specifications. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.