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Workfare 1,498 Aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik 1,401 Öffentliche Sozialleistungen 375 Social security benefits 374 Arbeitsmarktpolitik 346 Labour market policy 306 Deutschland 294 USA 294 United States 294 Wirkungsanalyse 289 Impact assessment 284 Germany 274 Sozialreform 230 Welfare reform 226 Sozialpolitik 149 Großbritannien 146 United Kingdom 140 Sozialleistungsempfänger 134 Welfare recipients 134 Social policy 126 Theorie 122 Theory 117 workfare 116 Arbeitsangebot 113 Arbeitslosigkeit 109 Arbeitsmarktintegration 105 Labour market integration 104 Labour supply 104 Beschäftigungseffekt 103 Employment effect 95 Unemployment 95 Unemployment insurance 89 Familienleistungsausgleich 88 Family benefits 87 Arbeitslosenversicherung 85 Reform 85 India 84 Lohnsubvention 84 Indien 83 Schätzung 76
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Graue Literatur 465 Non-commercial literature 465 Article in journal 451 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 451 Working Paper 386 Arbeitspapier 330 Aufsatz im Buch 116 Book section 116 Collection of articles of several authors 71 Sammelwerk 71 Amtsdruckschrift 50 Government document 50 Hochschulschrift 49 Thesis 35 Konferenzschrift 29 Aufsatzsammlung 22 Conference proceedings 20 Article 17 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 Report 5 Amtliche Publikation 4 Conference paper 4 Konferenzbeitrag 4 Statistik 4 Bibliografie 3 Book review 3 Commentary 3 Kommentar 3 Statistics 3 Festschrift 2
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Schneider, Hilmar 48 Ravallion, Martin 41 Ochel, Wolfgang 30 Zimmermann, Klaus F. 26 Schöb, Ronnie 22 Fredriksson, Peter 21 Holmlund, Bertil 21 Koning, Pierre 18 Uhlendorff, Arne 17 Hohmeyer, Katrin 16 Klaauw, Bas van der 16 Robins, Philip K. 16 Spermann, Alexander 16 Corman, Hope 15 Blank, Rebecca M. 14 Bonin, Holger 14 Galasso, Emanuela 14 Werding, Martin 14 Wunsch, Conny 14 Dave, Dhaval 13 Greenberg, David H. 13 Markussen, Simen 13 Peichl, Andreas 13 Wolff, Joachim 13 Bolhaar, Jonneke 12 Feist, Holger 12 Holzner, Christian 12 Ketel, Nadine 12 Koch, Susanne 12 Reichman, Nancy E. 12 Røed, Knut 12 Berthold, Norbert 11 Brett, Craig 11 Meier, Volker 11 Autor, David H. 10 Francesconi, Marco 10 Sinn, Hans-Werner 10 Tranæs, Torben 10 Walwei, Ulrich 10 Brown, Alessio J. G. 9
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National Bureau of Economic Research 22 Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 17 USA / General Accounting Office 13 CESifo 6 Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) 6 OECD 6 W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research <Kalamazoo, Mich.> 6 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5 Russell Sage Foundation 5 Inter-American Development Bank 4 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 HAL 3 Juventa Verlag 3 School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus 3 USA / Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness 3 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 3 Bangladesch / Parisaṅkhyāna Byuro 2 Center for Frivilligt Socialt Arbejde <Odense> / Kontaktudvalget til det Frivillige Sociale Arbejde 2 Centre for Economic Research <Dublin> 2 Economics Department, Queen's University 2 Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung <Tübingen> 2 Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) 2 Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk Utvärdering (IFAU), Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet 2 Johns Hopkins University / Department of Economics 2 Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation 2 National Institute of Economic and Social Research 2 Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet 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 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) 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
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Discussion paper series / IZA 72 IZA Discussion Paper 34 IZA Discussion Papers 23 NBER working paper series 22 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 20 NBER Working Paper 19 CESifo working papers 16 Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & economic inequalities 15 Policy research working paper : WPS 15 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 13 IZA Standpunkte 12 CESifo DICE Report 10 CESifo Working Paper 9 CESifo Working Paper Series 9 CESifo working papers : the international platform of Ludwig-Maximilians University's Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute 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 The review of economics and statistics 9 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 9 Australian journal of labour economics : a journal of labour economics and labour relations ; official journal of the Australian Society of Labour Economists 8 IAB-Forschungsbericht : aktuelle Ergebnisse aus der Projektarbeit des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 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 Working paper / IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation 7 Applied economics 6 Cambridge journal of economics 6 Eastern economic journal 6 European journal of social security 6 IZA-Standpunkte 6 Policy Research Working Paper 6 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6 Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research 6 CPB discussion paper 5 Discussion paper / Tinbergen Institute 5
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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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Productive workfare? : evidence from Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program
Gazeaud, Jules; Stephane, Victor - In: American journal of agricultural economics 105 (2023) 1, pp. 265-290
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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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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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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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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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From welfare to work : financial incentives, active labor market policies, and integration programs
Ottosson, Lillit - 2022
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Labor market policies, unemployment, and identity
Schöb, Ronnie - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
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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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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Are active labor market policies (cost-)effective in the long run? : evidence from the Netherlands
Lammers, Marloes; Kok, Lucy - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 60 (2021) 4, pp. 1719-1746
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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-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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Workfare in Germany and the Problem of Vertical Fiscal Externalities
Feist, Holger; Schöb, Ronnie - 2021
Social assistance to the poor is increasingly subject to compulsory work requirements in Germany. Municipalities have started to offer temporary employment in their job-creation companies to claimants who are able to work. These claimants earn wages and social insurance contributions if they...
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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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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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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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Investigating Neighbourhood Effects in Welfare-to-Work Transitions
Dautel, Vincent; Fusco, Alessio - 2021
We analyse the existence and underlying mechanisms of neighbourhood effects in welfare-to-work transitions. The analysis is based on Luxembourg social security longitudinal data, which covers the period 2001-2015 and provides precise information at the postcode level, corresponding mostly to...
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Inside the Black Box of a Welfare-to-Work Program
Lifshitz, Osnat; Larom, Tali - 2021
Welfare-to-work programs have been extensively studied, in most cases as a single “black box”. Our structural dynamic model and the unique data we use enable us to open this box and shed light on the mechanisms through which the various components of the program operate. We are able to...
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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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Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab : Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare
Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2021
A central concern in economics is to understand the interplay between institutions and labor markets. In this paper we argue that laboratory experiments are a powerful tool for studying labor market institutions. One of the most important advantages is the ability to implement truly exogenous...
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An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of the Self-Sufficiency Project on the Employment Behaviour of Former Welfare Recipients
Schwartz, Saul; Zabel, Jeffrey E.; Donald, Stephen G. - 2021
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) was a Canadian research and demonstration project that attempted to "make work pay" for long-term income assistance (IA) recipients by supplementing their earnings. The long-term goal of SSP was to get lone parents permanently off IA and into the paid labour...
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