TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Mahlstedt, Robert
A1  - van den Berg, Gerard J.
A1  - Vikström, Johan
T1  - Side effects of labor market policies
T2  - The Scandinavian journal of economics
N2  - Labor market policies, such as training and sanctions, are commonly used to bring workers back to work. By analogy to medical treatments, exposure to these tools can have side effects. We study the effects on health using individual-level population registers on labor market outcomes, drug prescriptions, and sickness absence, comparing outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. Training improves cardiovascular and mental health, and lowers sickness absence. This is likely to be the result of the instantaneous features of participation, such as the adoption of a more rigorous daily routine, rather than improved employment prospects. Benefits sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health.
KW  - Cardiovascular disease
KW  - depression
KW  - drugs
KW  - health
KW  - mental health
KW  - prescriptions
KW  - sanctions
KW  - sickness
KW  - training
KW  - unemployment
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61850
SN  - 0347-0520
SN  - 1467-9442
N1  - The authors thank Anders Forslund, Markus Gehrsitz, Aderonke Osikominu, Ulrika Vikman, two anonymous reviewers, and participants at conferences and workshops in Lyon, Nuremberg, Bath, Leipzig, and Basel, and at seminars in Copenhagen, Potsdam, Hamburg, and Uppsala for valuable comments. M. Caliendo gratefully acknowledges funding from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, 405629508). J. Vikström acknowledges support from FORTE (2015-00971).
VL  - 125
IS  - 2
SP  - 339
EP  - 375
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  -