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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...

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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform

Blundell, Richard W. - 2013

We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and …. We find important incentive effects on education choice and labor supply, with single mothers having the most elastic … especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have …

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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers

Cavaco, Sandra - 2009

In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called "Conventions de conversion", was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...

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Training the Unemployed in France : How Does it Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

Crepon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Fougère, Denis - 2021

Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset...

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