Among the most important changes brought about by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is the imposition of time limits. In this paper, we analyze a simple model in which a potential welfare recipient chooses how to allocate her time-limited...

Among the most important changes brought about by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is the imposition of time limits. In this paper, we analyze a simple model in which a potential welfare recipient chooses how to allocate her time-limited...

Among the most important changes brought about by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 are time limits, which provide consumers with an incentive to conserve their welfare benefits for future use. Among forward-looking, expected-utility-maximizing consumers...

Ce rapport est un resume des constatations obtenues au milieu de la periode d'etude de l'une des trois experiences du PAS.

Le principal objectif de l'etude sur le requerantes etait de determiner si les nouvelles venues a l'aide sociale y resteraient plus longtemps pour pouvoir etre admissibles au supplement de revenu de Projet d'autosuffisance (PAS).

We study the rate of wage growth among long-term welfare recipients in the self-sufficiency Project (SSP) who were induced by the financial incentives of the program to enter the work force. We find that single parents who began working in response to the SSP incentive are younger, less...

Ce rapport porte sur le Projet d'autosuffisance (PAS), qui a ete realise pour mettre a l'essai une strategie concue pour rendre le travail payant, afin de trouver simultanement des solutions aux problemes de la pauvrete et dela dependance.

Le projet d'autosuffisance (PAS) a ete realise pour mette a l'essai une strategie visant a rendre le travail plus payant que l'aide sociale. Dans le cadre du projet, l'etude du PAS-plus visait a determiner si l'ajout de services d'emploi au supplement offert par le PAS et accessibles sur une...

Ce rapport porte sur le Projet d'autosuffisance (PAS), qui a ete realise pour mettre a l'essai une strategie concue pour rendre le travail payant, afin de trouver simultanement des solutions aux problemes de la pauvrete et dela dependance.