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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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Social policy in Mexico and Argentina

Tepepa, Martha - 2019

This paper is a comparison between two programs implemented to combat poverty in Latin America: Prospera (Prosper) in Mexico and Asignación Universal por Hijo (Universal Assignment for Child) in Argentina. The first section offers a review of the emergence of the welfare state, examining...

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Never give up? The persistence of welfare participation in Sweden

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - 2012

Welfare persistence is estimated and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households during the 1990s. This is done within the framework of a dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial condition and permanent unobserved heterogeneity. We control for three types of...

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State dependence in Swedish social assistance

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - 2013

Although the economic integration of immigrants has been the subject of a large number of studies, the research on the effect of intermarriage on immigrants' economic integration/assimilation is scarce and has no equivalence in the literature on the receipt of social assistance. This study fills...

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State dependence in Swedish social assistance in the 1990s: What happened to those who were single before the recession?

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - 2013

Using a dynamic discrete choice model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity and the initial conditions problem, we estimate the state dependence in Swedish social assistance for Swedish-born and foreign-born who were single in 1990 before the recession period started. The estimates of the...

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Women's and men's responses to in-work benefits: The influence of younger children

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - 2014

This study examines how the non-targeted earned income tax credit (EITC) introduced in Sweden in 2007 has affected the labor supply of men and women living together in two-adault households and the extent to which children affect related outcomes. Using a structural discrete labor supply model...

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Immigration, partnership dynamics and welfare persistence

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas; Kahanec, Martin - 2025

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Training quality and earnings: The effects of competition on the provision of public-sponsored training programs

Chong, Alberto; Galdo, José - 2006

programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets … matching and standard regression-based approaches, we find that beneficiaries attending highquality training courses have … higher average and marginal treatment impacts. These earnings differentials are larger for females rather than males, and are …

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Promoting equality through an employment of last resort policy

Papadimitriou, Dimitri B. - 2008

inflation. The paper considers a particular employment strategy: a government job creation program, such as an employment …

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On mandatory activation of welfare receivers

Dahlberg, Matz; Johansson, Kajsa; Mörk, Eva - 2008

participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies we are able to capture both entry and exit effects … mandatory activation of welfare receivers reduce overall welfare participation and increases employment. We also find that …

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