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Declining Caseloads/ Increased Work: What Can We Conclude about theEffects of Welfare Reform?

Blank, Rebecca M. - University of Michigan <Ann Arbor, Mich.> / Department … - 2001

In 1996, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility andWork Opportunity Reconciliation Act, or PRWORA, whichsubstantially restructured public assistance programs.PRWORA gave states almost entire discretion to design andoperate cash assistance programs for families with children,reducing the...

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Using Financial Incentives to Encourage Welfare Recipients to BecomeEconomically Self-Sufficient

Robins, Philip K.; Michalopoulos, Charles - University of Miami <Coral Gables, Fla.>; Manpower … - 2001

[...]One of the primary goals of TANF is to move welfarerecipients into work and economic self-sufficiency. Althoughstates were given much flexibility in how to achieve this goal, thefederal government imposed some guidelines in the form ofrequirements that welfare recipients be participating in...

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Did Globalization Aid Industrial Development In Colonial India? A Study of Knowledge Transfer in the Iron Industry

Roy, Tirthankar - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

input was craftsmanship. The condition was slow to develop in iron-smelting, where the costs of fuel, labour, capital, and …

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The Limits of Social Democracy?

Clark, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

refers to persons, Labour Party structures and Britain’s macro-economy without offering introductions. To avoid assuming … inflation and unemployment; and, the structure and purpose of the Labour Party committees cited in the paper. This should be …

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The formation of “Modern” Economics: Engineering and Ideology

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Economics has always had two connected faces in its Western tradition. In Adam Smith's eighteenth century, as in John Stuart Mill's nineteenth, these might be described as the science of political economy and the art of economic governance. The former aimed to describe the workings of the...

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The ‘Labour Question’ in Nineteenth Century Brazil: railways, export agriculture and labour scarcity

Lamounier, Lucia - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

This paper examines changing patterns of labour relations innineteenth-century Brazil associated with the building of … railways andexpansion of export agriculture. It addresses the 1850s-1880s period,decades when the `labour question' became a … alternative supplies of labour at a time ofincreasing agro-export production. In 1852 effective action to start thebuilding of …

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The State And The Industrious Revolution in Tokugawa Japan

Sugihara, Kaoru - Daigakuin-Keizaigaku-Kenkyūka <Toyonaka> - 2004

land, labour and capital as well as institutional frameworks for the discovery and diffusion of useful and reliable … was little or no formation of land and capital markets; labour was essentially tied to land, and there was an occupational …

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Pensions: Challenges and Choices: What next?

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The analysis in the Report of the Pensions Commission (UK Pensions Commission2004, henceforth referred to as the Report), is sound, the data a wonderful treasure trove, thepresentation particularly clear, and the diagnosis correct. This comment takes the Report’sanalysis as given, and sets out...

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Paying for higher education: What policies, in what order?

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Building on earlier work (Barr 2004a), this paper discusses the role of tuition fees in paying for teaching at universities in England, though much of the analysis applies also to the rest of the UK and to OECD countries. There is no discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three...

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Welfare Reform and LoneMothers’ Employment inthe US

Waldfogel, Jane; Danziger, Sandra K.; Danziger, Sheldon; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act(PRWORA) of 1996 represents a dramatic change in the US welfare state.One of its key goals was to move lone mothers, even those with youngchildren, from welfare to work. Early evidence suggests that, in concertwith a strong...

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