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The Desirability of Workfare as a Welfare Ordea Revisited
Blumkin, Tomer - 2010
In this paper we challenge the conventional wisdom that using workfare as a supplementary screening device to means …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139047
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Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis
Khamis, Melanie - 2009
Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the … alternative to workfare participation before a large-scale program expansion took place. Results from the propensity score … matching indicate that observable characteristics of informal low-income workers and current workfare participants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153297
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147543
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119013
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Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?
Faber, Riemer P. - 2012
This paper studies a conditional block grant that Dutch municipalities receive for welfare-to-work programs. Many municipalities do not fully use this grant, although programs are beneficial for them. We argue that municipalities incur expenses to use the grant. If these costs are substantial,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103488
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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes : An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts
Koning, Pierre - 2013
This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088652
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Low Paid Employment in Britain : Estimating State-Dependence and Stepping Stone Effects
Cai, Lixin - 2016
Using 18 waves of the British Household Panel Study, this paper examines state dependence and stepping stone effects of low pay. A distinguishing feature is that five types of transition- not in the labour force (NILF), unemployment, self-employment, low pay and higher pay are modelled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001330
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State
Mogstad, Magne - 2009
for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155319
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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Huber, Martin - 2009
Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157019
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How Effective are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
Jobs are the number one policy concern of policymakers in many countries. The global financial crisis, rising demographic pressures, high unemployment rates, and concerns over automation all make it seem imperative that policymakers employ increasingly more active labor market policies. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959065