Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), an experiment providing generous financial incentives to exit welfare and obtain stable … employment. The model incorporates the main features of many unemployment insurance and welfare programs, including eligibility … control group and simulate the experiment within the model. The model matches the welfare-to-work transition of the treatment …

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between … populations, everyone ends up in the country with the highest initial level of human capital. Welfare under any of the equilibrium …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …

Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds … past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by using administrative data on welfare recipients in Missouri and North … Carolina to obtain separate estimates of the effects of participating in sub-programs of each state's welfare-to-work program …

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 …

estimate the effect of child-bearing on economic and marital outcomes. The application is motivated by American welfare reform … childbearing, but evidence on the impact of childbearing on marital stability and welfare use is more tenuous. …

This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … level of welfare is deduced by way of a Nash bargaining solution. We show that intergenerational transfers may produce …

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare … allowance yields positive static welfare effects amounting to approximately 1.8 per cent of income tax revenue but increases … problematic distributional impact, flat tax reforms are unlikely to spill over to the welfare states of Western Europe. …