Do wage subsidies for disabled workers reduce their non-employment? - evidence from the Danish Flexjob scheme

Table 1 Summary statistics for all new Flexjob hires, treatment and comparison group, pre- and post- reform

	Treatment group		Comparison group
	Pre-reform	Post-reform	Pre-reform	Post-reform
Share Flexjob recruited from non-employment (relative to all new Flexjob hires)	0.422^b	0.134^a	0.238	0.260
Share retained Flexjob hires (relative to all new Flexjob hires)	0.384^b	0.738^a	0.583	0.561
Non-native Dane	0.053	0.044	0.045	0.045
Age	45.19	47.76	46.15	48.65
Age	(0.740)	(0.934)	(0.398)	(0.329)
Male	0.415	0.470^a	0.337	0.229
Vocational training	0.334	0.367	0.336	0.361
Higher education	0.252	0.359	0.196	0.347
Degree of unemployment, year t-1 (*100)	6497	2732	5791	2694
Degree of unemployment, year t-1 (*100)	(1470)	(1133)	(728)	(382)
Annual number of days with sick benefits (*100)	5667	7493	5485	8067
Annual number of days with sick benefits (*100)	(761)	(926)	(380)	(359)
Annual number of doctor visits	9.989	12.79	10.32	12.09
Annual number of doctor visits	(1.62)	(1.11)	(0.424)	(0.362)
Diagnosed with diseases in bones, muscles and connective tissue	0.099	0.166	0.094	0.132
Number of observations (minimum)^c)	185	146	664	927

Notes: ^a)Significant difference between treatment and comparison group in the post-reform period, p < 0.1.
^b)Significant difference between treatment and comparison group in the pre-reform period, p < 0.1.
^c)For the variable “Share retained Flexjob hires (relative to all new Flexjob hires)”, we have a total of 1,922 observations. For the remaining variables, we have a total of 1,926 observations.