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The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State : Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
Cohen, Alon - 2008
The paper analyzes the effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants. We develop a parsimonious model in which the effect of an increase in the generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants under free migration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464188
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Program Evaluation as a Decision Problem
Dehejia, Rajeev - 1999
I argue for thinking of program evaluation as a decision problem. In the context of California's GAIN experiment (a randomized trial of a welfare-to-work alternative to AFDC), I show that GAIN first-order stochastically dominates AFDC when considering the choice between the treatment and control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471853
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Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers
Meara, Ellen - 2006
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act imposed work requirements on welfare recipients. Using 1999-2001 data from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we compared the labor market and welfare experience of women with four employment barriers: poor mental health,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466185
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Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2002
This paper reviews the economics literature on welfare reform over the 1990s. A brief summary of the policy changes over this period is followed by a discussion of the methodological techniques utilized to analyze the effects of these changes on outcomes. The paper then critically reviews the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469731
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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015
Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare … suggested by past methods, despite a more "poor-poor" incidence. A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457627
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime
Corman, Hope - 2013
We investigate the effects of broad-based work incentives on female crime by exploiting the welfare reform legislation of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that welfare reform decreased female property crime arrests by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459774
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Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs
Pavoni, Nicola - 2013
Some existing welfare programs ("work-first") require participants to work in exchange for benefits. Others ("job search-first") emphasize private job-search and provide assistance in finding and retaining a durable employment. This paper studies the optimal design of welfare programs when (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459994
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E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs : Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2016
transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455877
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Targeted Transfers and the Fiscal Response to the Great Recession
Oh, Hyunseung - 2011
Between 2007 and 2009, government expenditures increased rapidly across the OECD countries. While economic research on the impact of government purchases has flourished, in the data, about three quarters of the increase in expenditures in the United States (and more in other countries) was in...
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Unemployment Insurance Fraud in the Debit Card Market
Khetan, Umang; Leder-Luis, Jetson; Wang, Jialan; Zhou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study fraud in the unemployment insurance (UI) system using a dataset of 35 million debit card transactions. We apply machine learning techniques to cluster cards corresponding to varying levels of suspicious or potentially fraudulent activity. We then conduct a difference-in-differences...
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