and employment of welfare recipients in Maryland and Missouri, 1991-2004. We find that there has been only modest change … of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare reform leavers are much more likely to be … working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in …

several reform options which have been proposed in order to overcome financial and structural problems. Suggestions for the …

Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster … macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises … interdependencies between the two types of crises, feedbacks between the two types of reform, the use of alternative measures of …

the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998 recognized …

taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two provisions for unemployed workers aged less … on wages takes place during the first year of the reform. Our simulations also show that the increase in wages is mostly …

economic profession, most notably, Barro, 2004 to analyze the connections between some dimensions of recent sociological …