the population. Reinvention of human capital policies is required to avoid increasing welfare state dependency among the … is both distortionary and inequitable. Early retirement and pension schemes should be made actuarially fairer as they …

Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help … place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer … benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the effects of temporary help firms on the labor market outcomes of welfare …

cause of death profiles, and estimate its welfare implications. We show that this phenomenon is not recent, is not … restricted to very particular causes of death, but is mostly driven by adult and old age mortality. We calculate that welfare …

Existing research on the static effects of the manipulation of welfare program benefit parameters on labor supply has … on labor supply of welfare expansions and contractions may differ in different time periods with different populations … obtained from a theory-consistent reduced form model which allows for a nonparametric specification of how changes in welfare …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …, our findings indicate that the impact of welfare rules crucially hinges on the biological relationship of the male partner …

to experience elsewhere. This paper examines this question for the case of Canadian social assistance (welfare) policies … growth has varied substantially across regions. The second is that welfare policies vary across provinces, and the ability of … the provinces to employ different approaches to welfare programs has increased since the mid-1990s. We thus examine …

Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help … place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer … benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the effects of temporary help firms on the labor market outcomes of welfare …