Essays on welfare dependency and the privatization of welfare services

Författare: Kajsa Hanspers, Och

Sammanfattning av Dissertation series 2013:2

This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in empirical economics. They can be divided into two general topics: the first two essays treat labor market programs for welfare recipients and the intergenerational trans-mission of welfare dependency and the last two essays deal with the effects of private ownership and competition in the provision of welfare services. I discuss the two topics in each section in the publication.