The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on …, there is no study yet that tests for difference in welfare usage among immigrant groups and immigrant status. We do not … expect welfare usage to differ among immigrant groups if we control for the factors that should predict welfare usage …

The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on …, there is no study yet that tests for difference in welfare usage among immigrant groups and immigrant status. We do not … expect welfare usage to differ among immigrant groups if we control for the factors that should predict welfare usage …

This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash … of the reforms for the next generation. Using two nationally-representative datasets, we exploit differences in welfare … plausibly causal effects of welfare reform on a range of prosocial and antisocial behaviors (volunteering, participating in …

conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare … recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance of financial incentives in the welfare participation and work … decisions of lowincome single mothers. Enhanced incentives induce a significant fraction of welfare recipients to leave the …

Welfare reform in Australia centres on the concept of both economic and social participation. The policy concern is …

Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare … policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 … local labor market conditions in explaining declines in the welfare participation trends of immigrants and reductions in the …

Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there … remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload …, even less is known about its impact on the experiences and well being of former welfare recipients. The analysis here …