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How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job; Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Knoef, Marike; Ours, Jan C. van - CESifo - 2014
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two … municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with relatively high benefits and low incentives for single mothers to leave welfare for … work. In our analysis, we make a distinction between native and immigrant welfare recipients. For immigrant single mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877926
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Getting People into Work: What (if Anything) Can Justify Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients?
Molander, Anders; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
So-called activation policies aiming at bringing jobless people into work have been a central component of welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877660
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Politically Sustainable Probabilistic Minority Targeting
Donder, Philippe De; Peluso, Eugenio - CESifo - 2014
We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the minority targeted, when the probability to receive the transfer is decreasing and concave in income. We apply our framework to the French social housing program and obtain that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877761
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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty through in-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara - CESifo - 2013
Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877897
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Political Institutions and Income (Re-)Distribution: Evidence from Developed Economies
Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - CESifo - 2013
We discuss the effect of formal political institutions (electoral systems, fiscal decentralization, presidential and parliamentary regimes) on the extent and direction of income (re-) distribution. Empirical evidence is presented for a large sample of 70 economies and a panel of 13 OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877914
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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and non Education Outcomes: The Case of Teenage Pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - CESifo - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228615
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Firms' Moral Hazard in Sickness Absences
Böheim, René; Leoni, Thomas - CESifo - 2011
Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers’ sickness absences. However, this insurance may create moral hazard problems for firms, leading to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320787
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Out of Work and Into School: Labor Market Policies and College Enrollment During the Great Recession
Barr, Andrew; Turner, Sarah E. - CESifo - 2014
The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy. We measure the enrollment response to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757730
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The Effect of Benefits Level on Take-up Rates: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Dahan, Momi; Nisan, Udi - CESifo - 2007
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment to study the effect of social benefits level on take-up rates. We find that households who are eligible for double benefits (twins) have much higher take-up rate - up to double - as compared to a control group of households. Our estimated effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766194
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Inter- and Intra-generational Consequences of Pension Buffer Policy under Demographic, Financial and Economic Shocks
Bucciol, Alessandro; Beetsma, Roel - CESifo - 2009
We study numerically the inter- and intra-generational welfare consequences of alternative pension fund policies in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534014