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Labor Supply, Hours Constraints and Job Mobility
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2010
If hours can be freely varied within jobs, the effect on hours of changes in preferences for those who do change jobs should be similar to the effect on hours for those who do not change jobs. Conversely, if employers restrict hours choices, then changes in preferences should affect hours more...
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Modeling Earnings Dynamics
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2009
In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and work hours over a career. Our model incorporates duration dependence in several variables, multiple sources of unobserved heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764833
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Labor Supply, Hours Constraints and Job Mobility
Altonji, Joseph G.; Paxon, Christina - 2021
If hours can be freely varied within jobs, the effect on hours of changes in preferences for those who do change jobs should be similar to the effect on hours for those who do not change jobs. Conversely, if employers restrict hours choices, then changes in preferences should affect hours more...
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime
Corman, Hope - 2013
We investigate the effects of broad-based work incentives on female crime by exploiting the welfare reform legislation of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that welfare reform decreased female property crime arrests by...
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Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs
Pavoni, Nicola - 2013
Some existing welfare programs ("work-first") require participants to work in exchange for benefits. Others ("job search-first") emphasize private job-search and provide assistance in finding and retaining a durable employment. This paper studies the optimal design of welfare programs when (i)...
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Workfare and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from India
Shah, Manisha - 2015
We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare …
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Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers
Meara, Ellen - 2010
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act imposed work requirements on welfare recipients. Using 1999-2001 data from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we compared the labor market and welfare experience of women with four employment barriers: poor mental health,...
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E-Governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs : Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …
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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
Card, David - 2015
We summarize the estimates from over 200 recent studies of active labor market programs. We classify the estimates by type of program and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using regression models for the estimated program effect (for studies...
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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015
Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare … suggested by past methods, despite a more “poor-poor” incidence. A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings …
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