TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Mahlstedt, Robert
A1  - van den Berg, Gerard J.
A1  - Vikström, Johan
T1  - Side effects of labor market policies
JF  - 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  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12514
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  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Mahlstedt, Robert
A1  - van den Berg, Gerard J.
A1  - Vikström, Johan
T1  - Side Effects of Labor Market Policies
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using individual-level population registers on labor market events outcomes, drug prescriptions and sickness absence, comparing outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. We find that training improves cardiovascular and mental health and lowers sickness absence. The results suggest that this is not due to improved employment prospects but rather to instantaneous features of participation such as, perhaps, the adoption of a more rigorous daily routine. Unemployment benefits sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health, possibly due higher stress levels, but this tapers out quickly.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 22 
KW  - unemployment
KW  - health
KW  - sickness
KW  - prescriptions
KW  - mental health
KW  - drugs
KW  - training
KW  - depression
KW  - cardiovascular disease
KW  - sanctions
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-478839
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 22
ER  -