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The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
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, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using … impacts. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been recognized. …
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Crime Report program for the period 1965-1998 and differences in the timing in the introduction of the reform, we find that … the Black sub-sample. Third, using the age at the time of the divorce law reform as a second source of variation to … from 15% to 40% depending on the specification and the age at the time of the reform. …
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6-15) and their mothers. We find that the reform increased mothers' divorce, decreased family income and increased the …-4 being held back in school at the time of the reform. We then analyze outcomes of the same cohorts of children 10 years later …
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estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on immigrants' labor market outcomes using a triple …
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This paper investigates the effect of the US Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA …
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assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort reform are small for infants in an asset value sense and that the prime …-aged working population is the group most negatively affected by tort reform. Maximum entropy quantile regressions highlight the …
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of how components of recent health care reform may influence this relationship in the future. …
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The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called self-insurance and self-protection, including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care...
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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using administrative data, the paper shows that the wage gap for German temp workers is rather large and...
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