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The impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment and recidivism

Carrington, William James; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, … - 2002

Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload, even less is known about its impact on the experiences...

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Welfare to temporary work : implications for labor market outcomes

Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2002

Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the...

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Labour markets in the time of coronavirus: measuring excess

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2020

performance, like unemployment or wage rates, show little departure from recent norms over the first few months of the crisis. The …

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A contribution to the empirics of reservation wages

Krueger, Alan B.; Müller, Andreas - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

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The COVID-19 pandemic's evolving impacts on the labor market: who's been hurt and what we should do

Hershbein, Brad; Holzer, Harry J. - 2021

In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved over most of the year 2020. Relying primarily on microdata from the CPS and state-level data on virus caseloads, mortality, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of...

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The welfare effects of mandatory reemployment programs: combining a structural model and experimental data

Maibom Pedersen, Jonas - 2021

This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...

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Parental unemployment, social insurance and child well-being across countries

Hansen, Kerstin F.; Stutzer, Alois - 2020

institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across … countries and years. The effect is thereby moderated by the generosity of unemployment benefits. Exploiting across- and within … mothers', unemployment. We further test the robustness of our results considering unemployment benefits jointly with social …

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Home-ownership, unemployed's job search behavior and post-unemployment outcomes

Caliendo, Marco; Gielen, Anne C.; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2015

Although home-ownership has been shown to restrict geographic labor mobility and to affect job search behavior of unemployed, there is no evidence so far on how it affects their future re-employment outcomes. We use two waves of detailed German survey data of newly unemployed individuals to...

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Perceived returns to job search

Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2022

In this paper we provide the first evidence on workers' perceptions of the returns to job search effort. The perceived job finding probability is nearly linear in hours searched and only slightly concave for most respondents. While workers are over-optimistic about the probability of receiving a...

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Labor markets, inequality and poverty in Georgia

Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical account of main channels through which the growth in transition period has affected labor market and living standards in Georgia. It is based on both the official aggregate...

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