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11 February 2021 - 9:30am - 4:00pm

IMeRSe Closing Workshop: Investigating the Mechanisms of Reliance to Social Assistance



Supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (C15/SC/10266168/IMeRSe)

Social assistance programmes, and especially minimum income schemes, should achieve two objectives. First, they should avoid extreme hardship for families unable to make ends meet through other income sources. Second, they should prevent dependence for their beneficiaries, and rather promote attainment of self-sufficiency. The IMeRSe project focuses on the second objective and aims at ‘Investigating the Mechanisms of Reliance to Social Assistance’. Using the specificity of the Luxembourg context and minimum guaranteed income scheme, the project analyses several mechanisms, based on economic incentives or social norms, potentially explaining welfare dependence.

The closing workshop of IMeRSe will bring together a panel of scholars to present some of their latest research in the area of employment, social norms and social assistance policy effects and to provide a forum to discuss the main results of the IMeRSe project.

Participation to the workshop is free of charge but the registration is mandatory. Attendance may need to be limited for organizational reasons.

Date & Time

February 11th from 9:30am to 4:00pm

Workshop Details

The workshop will be held online. Instructions will be emailed to participants early February.
Registration deadline: 04/02/2021

Programme

Download the programme in pdf

9.30-9.45 Welcome
9.45-11.15

Session 1

  • Presentation 1
    Social assistance and young adults’ labour supply
    Alessio Fusco, Michel Tenikue (LISER) and Philippe Van Kerm (LISER and University of Luxembourg)
  • Presentation 2
    Regression Discontinuity on Age-based Eligibility for Benefits: New Insights using Panel Administrative Data
    Olivier Bargain (University of Bordeaux) and Anders Bruun Jonassen (Rockwool Foundation)
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-13.00

Session 2

  • Presentation 3
    Age discontinuity and non-employment benefit policy evaluation through the lens of job search theory
    Bruno Decreuse (University of Aix-Marseille) and Guillaume Wilemme (University of Leicester)
  • Presentation 4
    Reimbursement threat and the duration of social assistance in Luxembourg
    Philippe Van Kerm (LISER and University of Luxembourg), Alessio Fusco (LISER), Silvia Girardi (LISER and KU Leuven), François Maniquet (LISER and UC Louvain)
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30

Session 3

  • Presentation 5
    Understanding the Reallocation of Displaced Workers to Firms
    Camille Hémet (Ecole Normale Supérieure and Paris School of Economics), Paul Brandily (PSE) and Clément Malgouyres (PSE)
  • Presentation 6
    Neighbourhood effects in welfare to work transitions
    Vincent Dautel and Alessio Fusco (LISER)
15.30-15.45 Concluding remarks

Programme