The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...

Some individuals work nearly full-time and most-year at low wages but remain poor. An effective way to assist the “working poor” is to supplement their earnings, which lifts them from poverty by rewarding their work. This paper explores how an earnings supplement program for British Columbia...

Since 1975, the earned income tax credit (EITC) has transformed from a small, obscure provision of the federal tax code into one of the largest programs in the U.S. social welfare system. Today, the EITC provides $47 billion in benefits each year to 24 million workers and their families. Bill...

"In diesem Beitrag werden Entwicklungen, Strukturen und Anlaufprobleme von Allgemeinen Maßnahmen zur Arbeitsbeschaffung (ABM) in den neuen Bundesländern aufgezeigt, ihre Entlastungswirkungen auf Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit abgeschätzt und die Maßnahmen nach ihren Einsatzfeldern...