and high welfare dependency, such as lone mothers, were vastly overrepresented among the poor. This motivated a workfare … once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and … by this route ease the financial burden of the government, but also reduced poverty. …

welfare on individual well-being constitutes a significant issue. This paper studies the disposable income and poverty among … poverty. We conclude that leaving welfare is not always associated with becoming financially better off, and post welfare well …

program and enter work. They also have a relatively large anti-poverty effect. Moreover, when incentives are offered to …

Workfare proposals concentrate on the work incentives for welfare recipients, thus focusing on the labor supply side …. This paper analyzes the effects workfare has on labor demand when the labor market is unionized. As workfare reduces the … number of recipients of public financial assistance, a workfare regime, as opposed to a welfare system, weakens the outside …

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the … evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …'s efficiency. Moreover, further evidence is required on the impacts of work experience through workfare on subsequent labor market …

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty … rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in … the effect of employment in reducing the threat or intensity of poverty. Using multivariate analyses we can find no …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …