Search Results - subject:"welfare benefits"

Welfare Benefits, Minimum Wage Rate and the Duration of Welfare Spells: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Canada

Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1997

, we utilize a semi-parametric duration model with time-varying covariates such as welfare benefits, minimum wage rate …

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The Effect of Benefits on Single Motherhood in Europe

González, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

of welfare benefits on the incidence of single motherhood and headship among young women across European countries. The …

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The Determinants of the Prevalence of Single Mothers: A Cross-Country Analysis

González, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of single mother families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is estimated using individual-level data for 14 countries. I...

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Welfare benefits and the rate of unemployment: some evidence from the European Union in the last thirty years

Bitros, George C.; Prodromidis, Kyprianos - EconWPA - 2004

Our objective in this paper is to re-examine the hypothesis that welfare benefits may be responsi-ble for the observed …, where the government comes to the relief of the unemployed by increasing the welfare benefits per man. From this model, we … restructure their welfare systems, so as to reduce welfare benefits in favour of greater labour market flexibility and self …

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The post-NAFTA influence of Trade Adjustment Assistance on the U.S. garment industry

Ramrattan, Lall B.; Szenberg, Michael - In: Global Business and Economics Review 4 (2002) 1, pp. 53-80

This paper analyses the influence of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) programme on the garment industry. It evaluates costs and benefits and the factors affecting TAA certification and denial processes of petitions for firms and displaced import-impacted garment employees following trade...

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Unemployment Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives

Heitmueller, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

With reference to the EU enlargement, a framework is derived which allows the study of the effect of unemployment benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the...

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It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries

Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper analyses the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (Information Technology) goods across a … wide range of countries. Using two separate methodologies and datasets, we find that welfare benefits mainly accrue to …

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Unemployment Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives

Heitmueller, Axel - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2002

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Interstate Migration and the Tiebout Hypothesis: An Analysis According to Race, Sex, and Age

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1973

This article empirically examines the impact on interstate net migration of differential state and local property tax and transfer policies in the United States by race, age and sex for the period 1965-70. The results offer considerable support to the Tiebout hypothesis that the consumer-voter...

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Analysis of Net Interstate Migration: Comment

Cebula, Richard; Schaffer, Beverly - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1974

This study extends a recent study on migration according to race, i.e., white migrants on the one hand and black migrants on the other hand. This study specifies that white migration should be treated as a function of white unemployment rate and white income levels, whereas black migration...

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