We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …

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 …

There is a strong intergenerational correlation in welfare participation, but this does not imply that parental welfare … parental welfare participation for children from marginal welfare participants, we know very little about intergenerational … spillovers of welfare participation onto the children of average welfare participants. By combining rich administrative data from …

We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform … dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of the German welfare system. We find that welfare transitions changed … after the reform: transitions from welfare to employment became more likely and persistence in welfare and inactivity …

implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … skilled workers, for not too high distortions in the labour market. Furthermore, it leads to a higher tax burden and a welfare …

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 …

-order efficiency losses that outweigh the budget cost to the government. By contrast, wage subsidies involve much smaller welfare …