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The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage Among Comparable Women : Evidence from the US

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2011

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

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Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence

Hartley, Robert - 2017

We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related economic outcomes using a long panel of mother-daughter pairs over the survey period 1968–2013 in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at...

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The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt

Dolton, Peter - 2011

This paper evaluates the UK New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP) program, which aims to return lone parents to work. Using rich administrative data on benefit receipt histories and a "selection on observed variables" identification strategy, we find that the program modestly reduces benefit receipt...

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Assessing the Impact of a Wage Subsidy for Single Parents on Social Assistance in Canada

Lacroix, Guy - 2014

In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...

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U.S. Versus Sweden : The Effect of Alternative In-Work Tax Credit Policies on Labour Supply of Single Mothers

Aaberge, Rolf - 2013

An essential difference between the design of the Swedish and the US in-work tax credit systems relates to their functional forms. Where the US earned income tax credit (EITC) is phased out and favours low and medium earnings, the Swedish system is not phased out and offers 17 and 7 per cent tax...

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Evaluation of an In-Work Tax Credit Reform in Sweden : Effects on Labor Supply and Welfare Participation of Single Mothers

Aaberge, Rolf; Flood, Lennart - 2021

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a recent Swedish in-work tax credit reform where we pay particular attention to labor market exclusion; i.e. individuals in as well as outside the labor force are included in the analysis. To highlight the importance of the joint effects from the tax and...

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Immigrant Welfare Receipt Across Europe

Barrett, Alan - 2011

The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...

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Estimating Heterogeneous Take-Up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions

Ham, John C. - 2011

We use a linear probability model with interactions and a switching probit model (SPM) to estimate heterogeneous effects of Medicaid expansions on Medicaid take-up, private insurance coverage and crowd-out. Specifically, we estimate: i) LATEs; ii) ATETs for the currently eligible; and iii) ATETs...

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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain

Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2009

We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the SA entry rate, rather than by the SA exit rate (which actually declined too). We examine the...

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Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown Up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn - 2020

Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions -...

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