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The Persistence of Welfare Participation

Andrén, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

-run effects of receiving social assistance on future household earnings and disposable income. The results show that state … future earnings, we find a strong and persistent effect over the whole observation window, while no such effect could be … is similar for both Swedish-born and foreign-born, even though the negative earnings effect is somewhat larger for the …

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The correlates of work in a post-AFDC world: the results from a longitudinal state-level analysis

Lewis, Dan; Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Altenbernd, Lisa - 2005

Much of the research that has followed welfare reform and new policies such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has focused on identifying the variations in how different states have put the new policy into practice. Less is known however, about how this new policy affects the...

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The Correlates of Work in a Post-AFDC World: The Results from a Longitudinal State-Level Analysis

Lewis, Dan; Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Altenbernd, Lisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries

Corak, Miles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...

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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...

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Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001

results show that variation in the unemployment and employment rates across MSAs and states explain the observed relative post …-welfare reform decrease among immigrants, with immigrant welfare utilization being sensitive to changes in both employment and …

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The impact of tax and transfer systems on children in the European Union

Corak, Miles; Lietz, Christine; Sutherland, Holly - 2005

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal analysis in the European Union, EUROMOD, is used to...

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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles - 2005

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation: the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2006

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...

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State dependence in Canadian welfare participation

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zhang, Xuelin - 2006

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years...

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