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Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the...
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The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on...
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on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country setting. Analyzing rich … individual-level data from a six-country survey, we find that while the outbreak has no impacts on household income losses, it … results in a 65-percent reduction in the expected own labor income for the second-poorest income quintile. The impacts of the …
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positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …
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Family Rewards represents the first test of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in the U.S., offering families incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find that the program led to substantial...
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Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320409
pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country setting. Analyzing rich individual-level data from a six-country survey …, we find that while the outbreak has no impacts on household income losses, it results in a 63-percent reduction in the … expected own labor income for the second-poorest income quintile. The impacts of the pandemic are most noticeable in terms of …
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reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …
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