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Aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik 1,505 Workfare 1,485 Öffentliche Sozialleistungen 409 Social security benefits 400 Arbeitsmarktpolitik 360 Labour market policy 320 Wirkungsanalyse 300 USA 295 Deutschland 294 Impact assessment 294 United States 291 Germany 271 Sozialreform 240 Welfare reform 235 Großbritannien 163 Sozialpolitik 161 United Kingdom 154 Sozialleistungsempfänger 148 Welfare recipients 147 Social policy 132 Theorie 124 Theory 122 Arbeitsmarktintegration 119 Arbeitsangebot 114 Arbeitslosigkeit 114 Labour market integration 111 Labour supply 110 Beschäftigungseffekt 105 Employment effect 100 Unemployment 100 Familienleistungsausgleich 91 Family benefits 90 Armut 86 Indien 86 Arbeitslosenversicherung 85 India 85 Reform 85 Lohnsubvention 82 Intermediate labour market 79 Poverty 79
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Graue Literatur 466 Non-commercial literature 466 Article in journal 459 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 459 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 1,193 German 295 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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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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"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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The paternalist politics of punitive and enabling workfare : evidence from a new dataset on workfare reforms in 16 countries : 1980-2015
Horn, Alexander; Kevins, Anthony; Kersbergen, Kees van - In: Socio-economic review 21 (2023) 4, pp. 2137-2166
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The marketisation of welfare-to-work in Ireland : governing activation at the street-level
McGann, Michael - 2023
This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work in Ireland. It offers Ireland’s introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates...
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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
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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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
Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Verlaat, Timo; Todeschini, Federico - 2023
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Of charities and choice : researching the choices of the long-term unemployed on third-sector employability programmes
Payne, Jonathan; Butler, Peter - In: Human relations : towards the integration of the social … 76 (2023) 10, pp. 1634-1660
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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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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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Welfare reform and migrant's long-term labor market integration
Kunz, Johannes; Zhu, Anna - 2023
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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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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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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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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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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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Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components : A Re-Analysis of the California Gain Program
Hotz, V. Joseph; Imbens, Guido W.; Klerman, Jacob Alex - 2021
In this paper, we explore ways of combining experimental data and non-experimental methods to estimate the differential effects of components of training programs. We show how data from a multi-site experimental evaluation in which subjects are randomly assigned to any treatment versus a 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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Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2021
This paper reviews the economics literature on welfare reform over the 1990s. A brief summary of the policy changes over this period is followed by a discussion of the methodological techniques utilized to analyze the effects of these changes on outcomes. The paper then critically reviews the...
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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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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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Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D’Ivoire
Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes
Dyke, Andrew; Heinrich, Carolyn; Mueser, Peter R.; … - 2021
Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds, in part due to research design, data, and methodological limitations of the studies. We aim to substantially improve on past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by...
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The Consequences of 'In-Work' Benefit Reform in Britain : New Evidence from Panel Data
Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2021
In October 1999, the British government enacted the Working Families' Tax Credit, a generous tax credit aimed at encouraging work among low-income families with children. This paper uses longitudinal data collected between 1991 and 2001 to evaluate the effect of this reform on single mothers. We...
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Welfare Time Limits in the United States - Experiences with a New Welfare-to-Work Approach
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2021
This paper reviews the evidence on welfare time limits in the United States. It primarily refers to experimental and econometric evaluations. Time limits affect welfare recipients both before and after their limits are reached. Time limits reduce welfare receipt and increase employment before...
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Welfare-to-Work, Wages and Wage Growth
Lydon, Reamonn; Walker, Ian - 2021
This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme that acts as a wage subsidy on wage growth by exploiting an expansion to this welfare programme in the UK. The conventional wisdom is that such programmes trap recipients into low wage, low quality work - this comes from...
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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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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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