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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? Evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state

Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara - 2009

There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our...

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Active labor market policy evaluations: a meta-analysis

Card, David Edward; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2009

This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...

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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - 2013

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing … economic activity, along with the wages, employment, and industry mix of communities. These programs are widespread in the U …

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Escaping the unemployment trap: the case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008

been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We suggest that the longer people are unemployed … due to a drop in the replacement rate or firing costs, leading to a fall in wages, (ii) hiring subsidies, and (iii …

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