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Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds, in part due to research design, data, and methodological limitations of the studies. We aim to substantially improve on past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262632
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in … government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream … skimming within the model. Two major empirical findings are (a) that the short run measures used to monitor performance are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276751
Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds, in part due to research design, data, and methodological limitations of the studies. We aim to substantially improve on past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822848