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Optimal unemployment insurance design : time limits, monitoring, or workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity … monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare appears to be inferior to the other two systems. …

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Active labor market policies and crime : unemployment increase crime among youth, while active labor market policies can mitigate the problem

Tranæs, Torben - 2015

Active labor market programs continue to receive high priority in wealthy countries despite the fact that the benefits appear small relative to the costs. This apparent discrepancy suggests that the programs may have a broader purpose than simply increasing employment - for instance, preventing...

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Does workfare work well? : the case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Cho, Yoonyoung; Ruthbah, Ummul - 2018

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the … evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …'s efficiency. Moreover, further evidence is required on the impacts of work experience through workfare on subsequent labor market …

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"Employment in Poland 2011 - Poverty and jobs"

Magda, Iga; Bukowski, Maciej; Buchholz, Sonia; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This edition is devoted to the issue of poverty. Growth of prosperity is not distributed evenly among the Polish citizens, and some of them still cannot satisfy even basic needs. The improvement of an overall economic situation reduces risk of poverty in general. However, in case the risk...

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Mediating the transitions to work : the role of employment and career advisers in comparative perspective.

Darmon, Isabelle; Perez, Coralie; Wright, Sharon - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010

Labour market and career advice and guidance have received considerable recent research and policy attention and have been heralded as part of the new institutional resources required in reformed, active, welfare states. We seek to understand the meaning of such policy enthusiasm by proposing an...

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Unemployment Insurance and Low-Educated Single Working Mothers Before and After Welfare Reform

Shaefer, H. Luke; Wu, Liyun - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010

Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a nationally representative, longitudinal survey, this study examines changing levels of Unemployment Insurance (UI) eligibility and benefit receipt among working low-educated single mothers, 1990–2005. It also examines changing...

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The Effects of a Conditional Transfer Program on the Labor Market: The Human Development Bonus in Ecuador

Gonzalez-Rozada, Martin; Pinto, Freddy Llerena - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - 2011

In this paper we estimate the impact of a conditional transfer program, the Bono de Desarrollo Humano, over several labor market outcomes in Ecuador. We use the BDH’s targeting mechanism and rely on a regression discontinuity (RD) strategy to isolate the causal effects of the program over the...

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Lone mothers' participation in labor market programs for means-tested benefit recipients in Germany

Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

"This paper examines participation in labor market programs such as job subsidies, workfare, and training programs by … event-history analysis. Findings are that lone mothers' participation rates in workfare programs and class-room training …

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Dynamics of Poverty, Labor Market and Public Policies in Latin America

Beccaria, Luis; Maurizio, Roxana; Fernandez, Ana Laura; … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2011

Latin America experienced six years of sustained growth from 2003-2008. The high rate of economic growth over these years – before the 2008-2009 crisis – positively impacted social and labour market indicators. Evidence of these positive impacts can be seen in the form of job creation...

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Koreaââ‚¬â„¢s Unemployment Insurance in the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis and Adjustments in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis

Kim, Sung Teak - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper analyzes the impacts of the 1998 and 2008 financial crises on the Korean labor market. We study the historical background of the Korean Employment Insurance System and the change of labor policies from the 1998 Asian financial crisis to the current 2008 global financial crisis. While...

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