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Aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik 1,499 Workfare 1,481 Öffentliche Sozialleistungen 406 Social security benefits 399 Arbeitsmarktpolitik 354 Labour market policy 316 Wirkungsanalyse 298 USA 295 Impact assessment 294 Deutschland 292 United States 291 Germany 271 Sozialreform 238 Welfare reform 233 Großbritannien 161 Sozialpolitik 159 United Kingdom 152 Sozialleistungsempfänger 148 Welfare recipients 147 Social policy 130 Theorie 124 Theory 122 Arbeitsmarktintegration 117 Arbeitsangebot 114 Arbeitslosigkeit 112 Labour market integration 110 Labour supply 110 Beschäftigungseffekt 104 Employment effect 100 Unemployment 98 Familienleistungsausgleich 91 Family benefits 90 Armut 86 Indien 86 India 85 Arbeitslosenversicherung 84 Reform 84 Lohnsubvention 82 Intermediate labour market 79 Poverty 79
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Graue Literatur 464 Non-commercial literature 464 Article in journal 458 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 458 Working Paper 348 Arbeitspapier 330 Aufsatz im Buch 116 Book section 116 Collection of articles of several authors 72 Sammelwerk 72 Amtsdruckschrift 51 Government document 51 Hochschulschrift 50 Thesis 35 Konferenzschrift 29 Aufsatzsammlung 26 Conference proceedings 20 Research Report 12 Article 11 Collection of articles written by one author 11 Sammlung 11 Case study 9 Fallstudie 9 Advisory report 8 Gutachten 8 Systematic review 7 Übersichtsarbeit 7 Bibliografie enthalten 6 Bibliography included 6 Rezension 6 Amtliche Publikation 4 Conference paper 4 Konferenzbeitrag 4 Statistik 4 Bibliografie 3 Book review 3 Statistics 3 Book Part 2 Fallstudiensammlung 2 Festschrift 2
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English 1,189 German 293 Undetermined 18 French 16 Italian 10 Danish 8 Polish 5 Norwegian 3 Finnish 2 Swedish 2 Czech 1 Dutch 1 Spanish 1
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Ravallion, Martin 42 Schneider, Hilmar 28 Ochel, Wolfgang 25 Koning, Pierre 19 Galasso, Emanuela 18 Koch, Susanne 18 Schöb, Ronnie 17 Corman, Hope 16 Robins, Philip K. 16 Klaauw, Bas van der 15 Konle-Seidl, Regina 15 Stephan, Gesine 15 Wunsch, Conny 15 Dave, Dhaval 14 Eichhorst, Werner 14 Wolff, Joachim 14 Zimmermann, Klaus F. 14 Blank, Rebecca M. 13 Greenberg, David H. 13 Holzner, Christian 13 Reichman, Nancy E. 13 Uhlendorff, Arne 13 Werding, Martin 13 Bolhaar, Jonneke 12 Feist, Holger 12 Ketel, Nadine 12 Spermann, Alexander 12 Walwei, Ulrich 12 Autor, David H. 11 Kluve, Jochen 11 Houseman, Susan N. 10 Huber, Martin 10 Lechner, Michael 10 Markussen, Simen 10 Røed, Knut 10 Bonin, Holger 9 Duflo, Esther 9 Francesconi, Marco 9 Hernæs, Øystein 9 Murgai, Rinku 9
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National Bureau of Economic Research 22 Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) 18 USA / General Accounting Office 13 OECD 6 W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research <Kalamazoo, Mich.> 6 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5 Russell Sage Foundation 5 USA / Committee on Ways and Means / Subcommittee on Human Resources 4 Europäische Kommission / Ausschuss für Sozialschutz 3 Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Beschäftigung, Soziales und Integration 3 Juventa Verlag 3 USA / Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness 3 Bangladesch / Parisaṅkhyāna Byuro 2 Center for Frivilligt Socialt Arbejde <Odense> / Kontaktudvalget til det Frivillige Sociale Arbejde 2 Centre for Economic Research <Dublin> 2 Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung <Tübingen> 2 Johns Hopkins University / Department of Economics 2 Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation 2 National Institute of Economic and Social Research 2 Rand Corporation 2 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2 USA / Bureau of the Census 2 World Bank 2 World Bank / Development Research Group / Poverty Team 2 Adam Smith Institute <London> 1 Akademia im. Jana Długosza (Częstochowa) 1 American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1 American Institutes for Research 1 American Sociological Association 1 Angst im Sozialstaat - Sozialstaat in Angst? <Veranstaltung> <2017, Berlin> 1 Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich 1 Australian National University / Graduate Program in Public Policy 1 Australien / Government 1 Baden-Württemberg / Sozialministerium 1 Bayern / Bayerischer Landtag / CSU-Fraktion 1 Berlin-Brandenburg-Institut für Sozialforschung und Sozialwissenschaftliche Praxis 1 Bertelsmann Stiftung 1 Bread for the World Institute <Washington, DC> 1 C. D. Howe Institute 1 Canadian Council on Social Development 1
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Discussion paper series / IZA 74 IZA Discussion Paper 37 NBER working paper series 22 NBER Working Paper 20 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 20 CESifo working papers 15 IAB Discussion Paper 15 Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & economic inequalities 15 Policy research working paper : WPS 15 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 13 The review of economics and statistics 10 Australian journal of labour economics : a journal of labour economics and labour relations ; official journal of the Australian Society of Labour Economists 9 CESifo working papers : the international platform of Ludwig-Maximilians University's Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute 9 IAB-Forschungsbericht : aktuelle Ergebnisse aus der Projektarbeit des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 9 Ifo-Schnelldienst 9 Journal of policy analysis and management : the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 9 Journal of public economics 9 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 9 IAB-Forschungsbericht 8 Journal for Labour Market Research 8 Journal of human resources : JHR 8 Labour economics : official journal of the European Association of Labour Economists 8 Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 8 Working papers in economics 8 Kurswechsel : Zeitschrift für gesellschafts-, wirtschafts- und umweltpolitische Alternativen 7 OECD Economics Department working papers 7 WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 7 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7 Applied economics 6 Cambridge journal of economics 6 Eastern economic journal 6 European journal of social security 6 Policy Research Working Paper 6 Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 6 Working paper / IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation 6 CESifo Working Paper Series 5 CPB discussion paper 5 Discussion paper / Tinbergen Institute 5 Economic policy review 5 Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for Fiscal Studies 5
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Erwerbsverläufe und frühzeitige Aktivierung von Bedarfsgemeinschaften mit kleinen Kindern
Artmann, Elisabeth - 2023
Arbeitslosengeld-II-Beziehende sind grundsätzlich verpflichtet, Anstrengungen zu unternehmen, um ihren Leistungsbezug zu beenden oder zu verringern. Dazu zählt die Pflicht zur Arbeitssuche und Teilnahme an angebotenen Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Eine Ausnahme von dieser...
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Erwerbsverläufe und frühzeitige Aktivierung von Bedarfsgemeinschaften mit kleinen Kindern
Artmann, Elisabeth - 2023
Arbeitslosengeld-II-Beziehende sind grundsätzlich verpflichtet, Anstrengungen zu unternehmen, um ihren Leistungsbezug zu beenden oder zu verringern. Dazu zählt die Pflicht zur Arbeitssuche und Teilnahme an angebotenen Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Eine Ausnahme von dieser...
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The employment effects of generous and unconditional cash support
Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Verlaat, Timo; Todeschini, Federico - 2023
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Welfare reform and migrant's long-term labor market integration
Kunz, Johannes; Zhu, Anna - 2023
We study the effect of reducing welfare assistance on migrants' long-term integration in Australia. The policy postponed a migrant's eligibility for benefits during their first two years in the country. It mainly affected mothers and was announced after their arrival. Using a regression...
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The employment effects of generous and unconditional cash support
Verlaat, Timo; Todeschini, Federico; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2023
While unconditional cash transfers have been studied extensively in developing countries, little is known about their effects in a wealthier context. Through a randomized controlled trial, we study the employment effects of a generous and unconditional transfer targeting low-income families in...
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"Chatting shit" in the jobcentre : navigating workfare policy at the street-level
Redman, Jamie - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 37 (2023) 3, pp. 588-605
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Contested social impact bonds : welfare conventions, conflicts and compromises in five european active-labor market programs
Fraser, Alec; Knoll, Lisa; Hevenstone, Debra - In: International public management journal 26 (2023) 3, pp. 339-356
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The Effects of Work Requirements on the Employment and Income of Welfare Recipients
Falk, Justin - 2023
Experiments conducted in the mid-1990s show that a combination of work requirements and work supports substantially increased the employment of cash assistance recipients in Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the predecessor program to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) while...
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Effects of work requirements for food assistance eligibility on disability claiming
Stith, Sarah S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31
Between 2010 and 2017, 42 U.S. states added work requirements as a food assistance eligibility criterion for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs). Another U.S. public assistance program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), provides food assistance without a work requirement, along with...
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Does workfare work? : India's employment guarantee during COVID-19
Narayanan, S.; Oldiges, Christian; Saha, Shree - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 34 (2022) 1, pp. 82-108
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Labor market policies, unemployment, and identity : policies to help the unemployed can affect feelings of identity and well-being, so measures need to be evaluated carefully
Schöb, Ronnie - 2022
Unemployment not only causes material hardship but can also affect an individual's sense of identity (i.e. their perception of belonging to a specific social group) and, consequently, feelings of personal happiness and subjective well-being. Labor market policies designed to help the unemployed...
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Making activation for young welfare recipients mandatory
Dahl, Espen; Hernæs, Øystein - 2022
Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making welfare receipt conditional on participation in an activation program for all welfare recipients...
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From welfare to work : financial incentives, active labor market policies, and integration programs
Ottosson, Lillit - 2022
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The 2022 minimum income
Europäische Kommission / Ausschuss für Sozialschutz; … - 2022
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The 2022 minimum income ; volume 1
Europäische Kommission / Ausschuss für Sozialschutz; … - 2022
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Country profiles
Europäische Kommission / Ausschuss für Sozialschutz; … - 2022
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Preventing NEETs during the Great Recession : the effects of mandatory activation programs for young welfare recipients
Cammeraat, Emile; Jongen, Egbert L. W.; Koning, Pierre - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 62 (2022) 2, pp. 749-777
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Evaluation der Förderinstrumente nach § 16e und § 16i SGB II - Zwischenbericht
Bauer, Frank; Bennett, Jenny; Coban, Mustafa; Dietz, Martin - 2021
Mit dem "Teilhabechancengesetz" wurden zum Jahresbeginn 2019 die Instrumente "Eingliederung von Langzeitarbeitslosen" (§16e SGB II) sowie "Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt" (§16i SGB II) eingeführt. Beide Instrumente richten sich gleichermaßen an langzeitarbeitslose Leistungsberechtigte, die auch...
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Do Workfare Programs Live Up To Their Promises? : Experimental Evidence from CoTe D'Ivoire
Bertrand, Marianne; Crepon, Bruno; Marguerie, Alicia; … - 2021
Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world. They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and lasting impacts on participants' employment, earnings, skills and behaviors. This paper evaluates...
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Do changes in employment and hours worked contribute to a decreasing in the mental health of single mothers during a period of welfare reform in the UK? : a longitudinal analysis (...
Simpson, Julija; Bambra, Clare; Brown, Heather W. - 2021
We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation framework to explore if reductions in benefit income led to a...
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Evaluation der Förderinstrumente nach § 16e und § 16i SGB II - Zwischenbericht
Bauer, Frank; Bennett, Jenny; Coban, Mustafa; Dietz, Martin - 2021
Mit dem "Teilhabechancengesetz" wurden zum Jahresbeginn 2019 die Instrumente "Eingliederung von Langzeitarbeitslosen" (§16e SGB II) sowie "Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt" (§16i SGB II) eingeführt. Beide Instrumente richten sich gleichermaßen an langzeitarbeitslose Leistungsberechtigte, die auch...
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Welfare versus work under a Negative Income Tax: evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
The Income Maintenance Experiments have received renewed attention due to growing international interest in a Basic Income. Proponents viewed a Negative Income Tax as a replacement for traditional welfare with stronger work incentives and reduced poverty. However, existing labor supply estimates...
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Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
Bertrand, Marianne; Crepon, Bruno; Marguerie, Alicia; … - 2021
Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world. They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and lasting impacts on participants’ employment, earnings, skills and behaviors. This paper evaluates...
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Welfare versus work under a negative income tax: evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba income maintenance experiments
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
The Income Maintenance Experiments have received renewed attention due to growing international interest in a Basic Income. Proponents viewed a Negative Income Tax as a replacement for traditional welfare with stronger work incentives and reduced poverty. However, existing labor supply estimates...
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"Da klafft ne Ungerechtigkeit" - zu den Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen von Aufstocker*innen
Jürss, Sebastian - 2021
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Do supplementary jobs for welfare recipients increase the chance of welfare exit? : evidence from Germany
Mosthaf, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten; Schwarz, Stefan - 2021
Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study...
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Welfare, workfare and labor supply : a unified evaluation
Agostinelli, Francesco; Borghesan, Emilio; Sorrenti, … - 2021 - Revised, June 2021
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Restorative Relationships and 'Radical Help' : Reimagining Welfare-to-Work Beyond the Market-Family Divide
Lu, Lynn - 2021
The unprecedented global lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the extreme vulnerability of “essential” yet underpaid workers, the vast inequality between the wealthy and the less fortunate, and the bottomless pit facing those without a social safety net. While the crisis has...
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Welfare-to-Work Experiences with Specific Work-First Programmes in Selected Countries
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2021
This paper reviews the evidence of specific mandatory work-first programmes (job search assistance and workfare) for welfare recipients in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany. It primarily refers to experimental and econometric evaluations. The...
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Optimal Umemployment Insurance Design : Time Limits, Monitoring, or Workfare?
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2021
This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of...
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Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'
Autor, David H.; Houseman, Susan N. - 2021
A disproportionate share of low-skilled U.S. workers is employed by temporary-help firms. These firms offer rapid entry into paid employment, but temporary-help jobs are typically brief, and it is unknown whether they foster longer-term employment. We exploit a unique aspect of the city of...
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Program Evaluation as a Decision Problem
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2021
I argue for thinking of program evaluation as a decision problem. In the context of California's GAIN experiment (a randomized trial of a welfare-to-work alternative to AFDC), I show that GAIN first-order stochastically dominates AFDC when considering the choice between the treatment and control...
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Welfare versus Work Under a Negative Income Tax : Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, W. Craig - 2021
The Income Maintenance Experiments have received renewed attention due to growing international interest in a Basic Income. Proponents viewed a Negative Income Tax as a replacement for traditional welfare with stronger work incentives and reduced poverty. However, existing labor supply estimates...
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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way Out of Poverty?
Autor, David H.; Houseman, Susan N. - 2021
The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...
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Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Self-Sufficiency Project
Card, David; Robins, Philip K. - 2021
This paper reports on a randomized evaluation of an earnings subsidy offered to long-term welfare recipients in Canada. The program -- known as the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) -- provides a supplement equal to one-half of the difference between a target earnings level and a participant's...
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Assessing Clinton'S Program on Job Training, Workfare, and Education in the Workplace
Heckman, James J. - 2021
The Clinton administration has made job training and skill upgrading a major priority. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has already presented a bold program for skill enhancement drawing on a new consensus in certain circles of the social science and policy communities about the need to upgrade...
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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs
Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2021
This paper makes three primary contributions. First, we demonstrate the usefulness of general equilibrium models as tools with which to draw policy implications for policies implemented in practice only as small-scale social experiments. Second, we illustrate the usefulness of social experiments...
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From Stigma to Dignity? Transforming Workfare with Universal Basic Income and a Federal Job Guarantee
Lu, Lynn - 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic takes a catastrophic toll on lives and livelihoods across the United States, the harshest impact of the unpredictable virus has disproportionately fallen with foreseeable accuracy on Black, immigrant, poor, and elderly people, who are most likely to live and work in...
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Productive Workfare? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program
Gazeaud, Jules; Stéphane, Victor - 2021
Despite the popularity of public works programs in developing countries, there is virtually no evidence on the value of the infrastructure they generate. This paper attempts to start filling this gap in the context of the PSNP – a largescale program implemented in Ethiopia since 2005. Under...
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The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2021
The negative income tax proposed by Milton Friedman represents one of the fundamental ideas of modern welfare policy. However, the academic literature has raised two difficulties with it, one challenging its purported work incentives and the other suggesting the possible superiority of work...
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Getting People into Work : What (If Anything) Can Justify Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients?
Molander, Anders; Torsvik, Gaute - 2021
So-called activation policies aiming at bringing jobless people into work have been a central component of welfare reforms across OECD countries during the last decades. Such policies combine restrictive and enabling programs, but their characteristic feature is that also enabling programs are...
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Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms : Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2021
In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...
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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency : Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity
Neumark, David - 2021
The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...
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Workfare and Trade Unions : Labor Market Repercussions of Welfare Reform
Schöb, Ronnie - 2021
Workfare proposals concentrate on the work incentives for welfare recipients, thus focusing on the labor supply side. This paper analyzes the effects workfare has on labor demand when the labor market is unionized. As workfare reduces the number of recipients of public financial assistance, a...
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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs
Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2021
This paper makes three contributions to the literature on program evaluation. First, we construct a model that is well-suited to conduct equilibrium policy experiments and we illustrate effectiveness of general equilibrium models as tools for the evaluation of social programs. Second, we...
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The Employment Effects of Active Social Policy
Bolvig, Iben; Jensen, Peter; Rosholm, Michael - 2021
We analyse the effects of active social policy (ASP) on the dynamics of welfare dependence. We evaluate the impact of various ASP measures (employment and training) on the duration of welfare spells and subsequent employment spells, based on data from Denmark. The results show that employment...
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Welfare to Temporary Work : Implications for Labor Market Outcomes
Heinrich, Carolyn; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2021
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...
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Welfare Reform : What's Relevant for Europe?
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2021
This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven "lessons" of potential interest to European observers are discussed, with particular attention to the conclusions of more recent research. Such research indicates, for example, that...
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Workfare in an Efficiency Wage Model
Meier, Volker - 2021
The impacts of introducing work requirements for welfare recipients are studied in an efficiency wage model. If the workfare package is not mandatory, it will reduce employment, profits, and utility levels of employed and unemployed workers. In contrast, mandatory effort requirements will...
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Welfare to Work in the U.S : A Model for Germany?
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2021
Social assistance in Germany reduces the incentive to work. The U. S. Welfare to Work Programme tries to avoid such disincentives. It consists essentially of two elements: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for employees in low wage occupations and a Workfare model. The EITC and the Workfare...
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