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outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population ratios fell, particularly among males; unemployment and welfare use … marshal facts and arguments and to discuss the likely impact of institutional reform. -- unemployment ; wage growth ; welfare … use ; institutional reform ; Australia …
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This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different … employment, or unemployment, or participation, or wage equation) this paper focuses on the quality of job that the migrant … obtains on arrival in Australia. We provide alternative definitions of what is a good job in terms of objective and subjective …
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Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers …
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and the development of their children over the past two decades in Australia. Using nationally representative longitudinal …
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like unemployment) through the establishment of a set of compulsory savings accounts. A case study of New Zealand is used …
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unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …
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We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...
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The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
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Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian youths. Our evaluation strategy exploits a geographically differentiated implementation of...
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