Search Results - subject:"Wage subsidies"

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

Wage subsidies to private employers have often been proposed by economists as a potentially flexible and efficient … method to improve the earnings and employment of low-wage workers. This paper lays out the basic economics of wage subsidies …; examines issues arising in the design of alternative forms of wage subsidies; and reviews evidence on the effectiveness of …

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Long-Term Unemployment Subsidies and Middle-Age Disadvantaged Workers’ Health

(IEB), Institut Economia de Barcelona; García Pérez, … - 2021

We estimate the labour market and health effects of a long-term unemployment (LTU) subsidy targeted to middle aged disadvantaged workers. In order to do so, we exploit a Spanish reform introduced in July 2012 that increased the age eligibility threshold to receive the subsidy from 52 to 55....

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Reforms to Earnings Supplement Programs in British Columbia : Making Work Pay for Low-Income Workers

Petit, Gillian; Kesselman, Jonathan Rhys - 2021

Some individuals work nearly full-time and most-year at low wages but remain poor. An effective way to assist the “working poor” is to supplement their earnings, which lifts them from poverty by rewarding their work. This paper explores how an earnings supplement program for British Columbia...

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Employer Wage Subsidy Caps and Part-Time Work

Elvery, Joel; Reynolds, C. Lockwood; Rohlin, Shawn M. - 2021

Hiring credits and employer wage subsidies are tools that policymakers have available to attempt to improve labor … market conditions for workers. This study explores how capped-wage subsidies affect firms’ labor market decisions, in … Empowerment Zone. Results using different methods of identification suggest that firms respond to capped-wage subsidies by …

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Estimating the Effects of a Time Limited Earnings Subsidy for Welfare Leavers

Card, David; Hyslop, Dean - 2021

In the Self Sufficiency Program (SSP) welfare demonstration, members of a randomly assigned treatment group could receive a subsidy for full time work. The subsidy was available for three years, but only to people who began working full time within 12 months of random assignment. A simple...

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The Limits to Wage Growth : Measuring the Growth Rate of Wages for Recent Welfare Leavers

Card, David; Michalopoulos, Charles; Robins, Philip K. - 2021

We study the rate of wage growth among welfare leavers in the Self Sufficiency Program (SSP), an experimental earnings subsidy offered to long-term welfare recipients in Canada. Single parents who started working in response to the SSP incentive are younger, less educated, and have more young...

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Do in-work benefits work for low-skilled workers? : to boost the employment rate of the low-skilled trapped in inactivity is it sufficient to supplement their earnings?

Van der Linden, Bruno - 2021

High risk of poverty and low employment rates are widespread among low-skilled groups, especially in the case of some household compositions (e.g. single mothers). "Making-work-pay" policies have been advocated for and implemented to address these issues. They alleviate the above-mentioned...

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Covid-19 wage subsidy support and effects

Maré, David Christopher; Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2021

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COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Support and Effects

Maré, David C.; Hyslop, Dean - 2021

This note provides a brief preliminary analysis of the short run impact of COVID-19 and the government’s Covid Wage Subsidy (CWS) response on labour market flows. We focus on two issues. First, to examine the selectivity of the CWS, we describe the characteristics of firms and of workers who...

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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...

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