Employment and Health Effects of Labor-Market Policies in the Long Term

The aim of this project is to investigate the long-term effects of labor-market policies on employment and mental health outcomes. More specifically, the researchers examine how different active labor-market policies aimed at different target groups affect employment, income and mental (and physical) health in the short and the long term. They investigate how these effects develop over time, and whether there are mediated relationships between effects on different outcomes. Furthermore, they examine heterogeneous effects within the different target groups.

The first study explores whether active policies like requirements of frequent meetings with caseworkers or participation in activation have heterogeneous effects depending on the target group and their health and employment history.

The project utilizes data from different randomized trials on active labor-market policies conducted in Denmark from 2005 onwards.