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Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net
Low, Hamish W.; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2018
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States. We use variation by state and across demographic groups to provide reduced form evidence showing that such limits led to a fall in welfare claims (partly due to "banking" benefi ts for future use), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028659
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Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi; Voena, … - 2018
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States. We use variation by state and across demographic groups to provide reduced form evidence showing that such limits led to a fall in welfare claims (partly due to "banking" benefi ts for future use), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817475
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Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net
Low, Hamish - 2018
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States. We use variation by state and across demographic groups to provide reduced form evidence showing that such limits led to a fall in welfare claims (partly due to "banking" benefits for future use), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927137
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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed : Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779051
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2008
stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268615
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2008
stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275760
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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 1997
Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential … reason for the different structure of unemployment relates to institutional differences in unemployment compensation systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440778
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Work incentives and the cost of redistribution via tax-transfer reforms under constrained labor supply
Fischer, Benjamin; Jessen, Robin; Steiner, Viktor - 2019
Using information on desired and actual hours of work, we formulate a discrete choice model of constrained labor supply. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the microsimulation model STSM, we find that hours and participation elasticities are substantially smaller than those in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023402
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837029
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003444188