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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending
Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268861
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Efficiency and Effectiveness of Social Spending
Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the “Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending”, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762307
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Not Just for Kids: Child and Dependent Care Credit Benefits for Adult Care
Pepin, Gabrielle; Truskinovsky, Yulya - 2024
, subsidizes caregiving expenses but has low participation among adult caregivers. This paper evaluates the CDCC's current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210967
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The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment
Burger, Rulof; van der Berg, Servaas; von Fintel, Dieter - 2013
sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319427
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Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?
Karamcheva, Nadia; Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey - 2013
-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319447
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Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? : The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules
Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - 2004
levels and see their participation and employment probability as adults enhanced. We show that the estimated genuine impact … of attaining an academic qualification on participation and employment is always statistically significant, in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261989
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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels
Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005
participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment and annual income, as well as on the labor market equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262217
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The returns to seniority in France (and why are they lower than in the United States?)
Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2006
We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267591
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European vs. American hours worked: assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins
Langot, François; Quintero-Rojas, Coralia - 2008
that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268973
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Efficiency in a search and matching model with endogenous participation
Albrecht, James; Navarro, Lucas; Vroman, Susan - 2009
We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect … worker does not internalize the effect of his or her participation on average productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269110