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sind. Ein alternativer, ursachenorientierter Ansatz ist die Senkung des sozialen Leistungsniveaus durch Workfare. Eine … of a workfare strategy. The potential wages of transfer recipients, estimated on the basis of the German Socio …
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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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The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) was a Canadian research and demonstration project that attempted to "make work pay" for long-term income assistance (IA) recipients by supplementing their earnings. The long-term goal of SSP was to get lone parents permanently off IA and into the paid labour...
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This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
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The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
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This paper investigates whether mandatory activation programs for welfare recipients have effects on welfare participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies, we are able to capture both entry and exit effects. The empirical analysis makes use of a Swedish welfare...
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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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for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …. -- Lone mothers ; workfare reform ; difference-in-differences ; heterogeneity ; earnings ; labor force participation ; poverty …
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This paper advocates the cautious and constitutional evolution of existing basic income schemes ("unemployment benefit II") and Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT = "Einstiegsgeld") into a means-tested combi-wage model for the future long-term unemployed (gradualism strategy). The paper argues...
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therefore proposing workfare as an effective alternative, which may accomplish a strong incentive for the acceptance of low paid … ifo model, however, at the expense of massive cuts of disposable income for welfare recipients. Hence, workfare turns out … welfare level and workfare. …
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