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First birth before first stable employment and subsequent single-mother "disconnection" before and after the Welfare Reform and Great Recession
Rendall, Michael S.; Shattuck, Rachel M. - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 23 (2019) 2, pp. 83-104
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Welfare reform, 1834 : did the New Poor Law in England produce significant economic gains?
Clark, Gregory; Page, Marianne E. - In: Cliometrica : journal of historical economics and … 13 (2019) 2, pp. 221-244
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Welfare reform, precarity and the re-commodification of labour
Greer, Ian - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 30 (2016) 1, pp. 162-173
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School or therapy : two approaches to empowering welfare-reliant women
Woodward, Kerry - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 18 (2014) 4, pp. 399-426
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Did the 2007 welfare reforms for low income parents in Australia increase welfare exits?
Fok, Yin King; McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year. Specifically, the reforms introduced a requirement to...
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The consumption, income, and well-being of single mother-headed families 25 years after welfare reform
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - In: National tax journal 74 (2021) 3, pp. 791-824
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Welfare policy and precarious lives : "welfare reform" revisited
Peterson, Janice - In: Journal of economic issues 54 (2020) 2, pp. 377-384
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Public employment programs, workfare, and welfare reform
Rose, Nancy E. - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 33 (2001) 3, pp. 281-286
This paper develops a spectrum of government work programs, from mandatory workfare to more progressive fair work. This …
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Nordic paths from welfare to workfare: Danish, Swedish and Finnish labour market reforms in comparison
Kananen, Johannes - In: Local Economy 27 (2012) 5-6, pp. 558-576
insurance were reshaped by workfare reforms. The ways in which the principle of workfare changed the content of Nordic … autonomy. Instead, workfare reforms have contributed to an understanding of obligations in terms of obedience and to the … establishment of social order through control mechanisms. The degree of changes varies, so that Swedish and Danish workfare reforms …
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Labour market activation in Finland in the 1990s: Workfare reforms and labour market flexibilisation
Outinen, Sami - In: Local Economy 27 (2012) 5-6, pp. 629-636
Activation measures in Finland have meant the weakening of the level, qualification criteria, coverage, and time limits of social benefits in a way inimical to the post-Second World War Nordic welfare model. These changes have been accompanied by a growth of labour market flexibility, of...
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