The Effect Of Workfare Policy On CrimeSusumu Imai, Peter Fallesen, Lars Geerdsen and Torben Tranaes () No 1236, Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University Abstract: In this paper, we focus on a novel and potentially important aspect of theworkfare policy in the Danish labor market, namely its effect on crime.We do this by exploiting two policy changes. First, we examine the effect of a series of national welfare reforms introduced during the 1990s. Those reforms strengthened the work requirement for the young welfare recipients and were introduced gradually, starting with younger welfare participants first. We exploit the differential introduction of workfarereform across different age groups as the exogenous variation. Second, we use a unique policy experiment that began in 1987 by an innovative mayor of the Danish city of Farum, where he imposed a 100 % work or training requirement for all welfare recipients immediately from the date of enrollment. By comparing the changes in crime rates among the welfare recipients in Farum before and after 1987 with that ofthe rest of Denmark, we identify the effect of workfare on the crimerate. Keywords: Workfare; Crime; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:qed:wpaper:1236 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University Contact information at EDIRC. |
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