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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …
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-of-youngest-child exemptions – as a source of quasi-experimental variation in maternal employment. The 1996 welfare reform law empowered states to …
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The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction …
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, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using … impacts. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been recognized. …
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Welfare reform in Australia centres on the concept of both economic and social participation. The policy concern is …
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-welfare reform decrease among immigrants, with immigrant welfare utilization being sensitive to changes in both employment and …
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This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance...
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This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre … marginal tax rates on earnings. The first reform distributes the additional tax revenue uniformly to everybody (traditional … welfare) while the second reform distributes tax proceeds uniformly to workers only (in-work benefit). We build a simple model …
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Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there … remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload … employment and welfare recidivism comparing cohorts of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare …
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. The empirical analysis makes use of a Swedish welfare reform in which the city districts in Stockholm gradually …
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