Basic Information
Funding
Timeline
Participants
Design and Implementation

Basic Information

Country

Netherlands

Region

Gelderland

Governing level

Municipal

Funding

Budget (local currency)

€0.95 million

Budget (USD 2022)

$1.19 million

Budget currency

EUR

Funding type

Public

Additional funding source

External public

Funding description

Municipal government and European Union grant

Budget description

This amount covered the research budget and the case workers

Timeline

Project start date

12/06/2015

Project start year

2015

Final project release date

01/08/2020

Length of project (days)

1877

Experiment start date

01/12/2017

Experiment start year

2017

Experiment end date

31/12/2019

Experiment end year

2019

Number of start dates

2

Length of experiment (days)

760

Participants

Number of treatment groups

2

Sample size (intervention)

258

Unit of analysis

Households

Control group?

Yes

Control group sample size

131

Target group description

Social assistance recipients

Gender target

No

Income target

Yes

Age target (outside working age)

No

Family target

No

Labour market status target

Yes

Disability target

No

Occupation target

No

Industry target

No

Design and Implementation

Saturation

Dispersed

Legal powers

Permitted to change the withdrawal rate for additional earnings as part of the Participation Act legislation

Evaluation

External

Conditionality

Mixed treatments

Taper rates

Pre-existing tapers

Alternative interventions

Mixed