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Less cash, less crime : evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer program
Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - 2014
stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert … the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby …
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Effects of work requirements for food assistance eligibility on disability claiming
Stith, Sarah S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31
Between 2010 and 2017, 42 U.S. states added work requirements as a food assistance eligibility criterion for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs). Another U.S. public assistance program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), provides food assistance without a work requirement, along with...
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Mothers' labor supply and conditional cash transfers : evidence from Chile
Dona, Gonzalo - In: Estudios de economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 159-191
Taking advantage of a reform that made Chile’s most popular conditional cash transfer program substantially more generous, I study its impact on mothers’ labor supply using a difference-in-difference strategy. Previous research has focused on these effects near the inauguration of CCTs,...
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions : an effective Tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In … practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on … sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …
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Sind ARGEn wirklich besser? : Anmerkungen zur Evaluation der Betreuungsorganisation im Bereich der Grundsicherung
Schneider, Hilmar - 2009
Mit der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II wurde auch die behördliche Zuständigkeit für die Grundsicherung einer grundlegenden Reorganisation unterzogen. Während in der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Kommunen in Form der sogenannten Arbeitsgemeinschaften eine Mischverwaltung aus Bundesagentur...
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions : an effective tool to increase employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-19
In Germany, imposition of benefit cuts for non-compliant welfare recipients depends on the policy of the local welfare …. A tighter sanction policy can be quite effective for non-compliant welfare recipients. …
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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?
Holzner, Christian - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
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Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions : An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2009
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In … practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on … sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153503
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De-facto gaps in social protection for standard and non-standard workers : an approach for monitoring the accessibility and levels of income support
Immervoll, Herwig; Fernández, Rodrigo; Hyee, Raphaela; … - 2022
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy objectives hinge on the extent to which social protection is accessible for those requiring support....
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How reliable are social safety nets? : value and accessibility in situations of acute economic need
Immervoll, Herwig; Hyee, Raphaela; Fernández, Rodrigo; … - 2022
Social protection systems use a range of entitlement criteria. First-tier support typically requires contributions or past employment in many countries, while safety net benefits are granted on the basis of need. In a context of volatile and uncertain labour markets, careful and continuous...
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