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find strong and lasting impacts of the program on the take up of subsidies and employment services. These impacts are …
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Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...
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Much of the research that has followed welfare reform and new policies such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has focused on identifying the variations in how different states have put the new policy into practice. Less is known however, about how this new policy affects the...
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people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …
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participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies, we are able to capture both entry and exit effects … recipients reduces overall welfare participation and increases employment. We also find that mandatory activation programs appear …
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care subsidy and the effects of subsidy receipt on employment, school attendance, job search, and welfare participation. We … in welfare. Ordinary least squares estimates show positive and significant effects of subsidy receipt on employment …
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that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception of high school dropouts. In contrast, evidence strongly suggests … that the EITC boosts employment of young women (although not teenagers). We also explore how minimum wages and the EITC … the EITC boosts employment and earnings for minority women, and coupling the EITC with a higher minimum wage appears to …
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In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of Danish active labour market programmes aimed at welfare benefit … information on participation in labour market programmes and subsequent employment. Using a latent variable model, we estimate … mean effects of participation in private sector employment programmes compared to participation in other programmes, but we …
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This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care … employment while moving from parental and relative care to center care in the process. …
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Wirkungsevaluationen stehen oft vor der Herausforderung, Kausalität zwischen der betrachteten neuen Politikmassnahme und den resultierenden Outcomes herzustellen. Mangelnde Vergleichbarkeit zwischen der Programmgruppe (neue Politik) und der Kontrollgruppe (Status Quo) macht oft eine kausale...
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