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The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy : China’s Hukou System
Bao, Shuming - 2009
Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools, health care, and attractive employment opportunities are available only to those who have local registration (Hukou). Coincident with the deepening of economic reforms, Hukou has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155312
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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 … the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human … announcement and implementation of a major UK in-work benefit reform, we estimate its effects on single mothers' behavior. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119013
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : The Case of Divorced Parents
Francesconi, Marco - 2008
existing empirical literature on the impacts of welfare reform, and discuss the implications of our results for policy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768161
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The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour
Ohinata, Asako - 2015
difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016254
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The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements : Evidence from the UK JSA Reform
Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021
This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324759
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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data
Haskel, Jonathan - 2012
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754887
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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation : Evidence from European Countries
Piton, Céline - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915739
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The Impact of Welfare Reform on LeaverCharacteristics, Employment and Recidivism:An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri
Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program forsingle parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changesand their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reformsfrom the perspective of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861522
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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
Borghans, Lex - 2012
In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial “social support...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115369
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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market : The Spanish Experience
Bentolila, Samuel - 2011
, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117400