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Does leaving welfare improve health? : evidence for Germany

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2009

Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find...

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How demanding are activation requirements for jobseekers?

Immervoll, Herwig; Knotz, Carlo - 2018

This paper presents new information on activity-related eligibility criteria for unemployment and related benefits in OECD and EU countries in 2017, comparing the strictness of "demanding" elements built into unemployment benefits across countries and over time. Eligibility criteria for...

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Assisting the long-term unemployed : results from a randomized trial

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dunlop, Yvonne; … - 2002

Welfare reform in Australia centres on the concept of both economic and social participation. The policy concern is that people who fail to participate in economic and social life may become entrenched in disadvantage. In 2000-2001, a randomized trial was conducted by the Department of Family...

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Does workfare work well? : the case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Cho, Yoonyoung; Ruthbah, Ummul - 2018

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the … evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …'s efficiency. Moreover, further evidence is required on the impacts of work experience through workfare on subsequent labor market …

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A reappraisal of the virtues of private sector employment programmes

Graversen, Brian Krogh (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of Danish active labour market programmes aimed at welfare benefit recipients. We estimate an econometric model with treatment effects and discrete outcomes and we allow the responses to treatment to vary among observationally identical persons....

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Did Latvia's public works program mitigate the impact of the 2008 - 2010 crisis?

Azam, Mehtabul; Ferré, Céline; Ajwad, Mohamed I. - 2012

To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that targeted registered unemployed people who were not receiving unemployment benefits. This paper evaluates...

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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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Can arts-based interventions enhance labor market outcomes among youth? : evidence from a randomized trial in Rio de Janeiro

Calero, Carla; Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Gonzales, Veronica - 2014

This paper provides findings of a small-scale, innovative labor training program that uses expressive arts and theatre as a pedagogical tool. The corresponding life skills training component is combined with a technical component teaching vocational skills. To our knowledge, this is the first...

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A survey of the role of fiscal policy in addressing income inequality, poverty reduction and inclusive growth

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014

A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...

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Benefit duration and job search effort : evidence from a natural experiment

Lichter, Andreas - 2016

Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an indication of reduced job search effort and moral hazard behavior. However, to date, there is hardly any direct evidence of benefit-induced reductions in search effort. This paper...

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