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Social background, educational, vocational and benefit careers to persons with reduced working

Project period 2015–2018
Project employer Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Project nr. 10132
Project leader Inés Hardoy

The project had two main purposes. The first goal was to identify factors that may help to explain why some people are registered with reduced work ability, as well as identifying potential factors as well as success factors later in life. The second was to examine differences in the prediction value of different data sources. We examined how far we can get using variables available in the administrative registers data for predicting the probability of being registered with reduced work capacity and how they fare in the recent labor market. We distinguished between data from NAV and data from other administrative sources typically provided by SSB. We examined the differences in explanatory power between the various registers.

People with reduced work capacity is a very heterogeneous group. We focused on younger people, aged 18 to 29 years old, who are registered with reduced working capacity. This group is particularly interesting for several reasons:

  1. circumstances and opportunities in the labor market varies enormously with age so that the data sources may have a lot to say for the predictions;
  2. the importance of high quality and effective efforts targeted at youth is high on the political agenda in all countries, and
  3. social and economic exclusion early in life predicts exclusion in adult age.

By increasing the understanding of what determines who is registered with reduced work capacity at a relative young age, we also helped to increase the understanding of what can reduce exclusion amongst older people.

Publications

Cools, Sara; Hardoy, Ines & von Simson, Kristine (2018). Sosial bakgrunn, utdanning, arbeid og stønader til personer under 30 år med nedsatt arbeidsevne. Rapport – Institutt for samfunnsforskning. 2018:12.

Participants

Sara Cools PhD Research Professor +47 984 96 736 Send e-mail
Inés Hardoy Dr. polit. Research Professor +47 472 45 113 Send e-mail
Tags: Working Life
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