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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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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Akerman, Anders - 2015

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on value added, factor inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions....

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Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018

Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how...

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