A wage subsidy increased private sector employment among poor workers in a welfare-dependent region of Argentina, but …

In 1993 Argentina began implementing workfare programs, and workfare has become a central public policy starting 2002 … explore targeting, poverty and employability effects of workfare before 2002 based on the permanent household survey (EPH). We …

Argentina's Proempleo Experiment, conducted in 1998-2000, was designed to assess whether a wage subsidy and specialized … training could assist the transition from workfare to regular work. Randomly sampled workfare participants in a welfare …

extra skill training had no impact. Randomly sampled workfare participants in a welfare-dependent region of Argentina were …A wage subsidy increased private sector employment among poor workers in a welfare-dependent region of Argentina, but …

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 …

, workfare may not provide the intended incentives, and flexicurity (a system that combines a flexible labor market with active …

sind. Ein alternativer, ursachenorientierter Ansatz ist die Senkung des sozialen Leistungsniveaus durch Workfare. Eine … of a workfare strategy. The potential wages of transfer recipients, estimated on the basis of the German Socio …