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Use of unemployment insurance and public employment services after leaving welfare

O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …

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Social assistance in five countries in north-western Europe

Hansen, Hans; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2015

In this paper, we calculate the disposable incomes in 2012 of three selected family types receiving social assistance in five countries in north-western Europe. We also calculate the net replacement rates for families receiving social assistance, calculated on the basis of the disposable incomes...

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By the Sweat of Their Brow : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles

Force, Peter - 2016

The nation's best known welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was created to give widows and destitute mothers the means to stay at home and care for children. However, the entry of large numbers of American mothers into the paid workforce has created increasing tension...

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Inclusive growth : what future for the European social model?

Schmid, Günther - 2014

and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

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Mandatory volunteer work as fair reciprocity for unemployment and social benefits?

Veldboer, Lex; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015

Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...

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Actively seeking work? : the politics of unemployment and welfare policy in the United States and Great Britain

King, Desmond S. - 1995

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Can Welfare Abuse Be Welfare Improving?

Mazur, Karol - 2019

In this paper, I analyze quantitatively a model of labor search with unemployment insurance (UI), savings, voluntary … explain the empirically documented unemployed worker search behavior. Finally, by inducing different unemployment benefit … eligibility requirements, the model identifies a concrete policy that could help us understand differences in the unemployment …

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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor

Palacios, Robert J. - 2020

, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of … across sectors and geographic regions and higher equilibrium unemployment rates for some groups of workers. This paper …

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Minimum income schemes in Europe : is there a trade-off with activation policies?

Iacono, Roberto - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 6 (2017) 1, pp. 1-15

This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, by employing a macro-level institutional dataset on benefit levels for social assistance (SA) and minimum income protection (MIP) in 22 European countries in the period 1990–2013, I show that the adequacy of income support for...

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The Employment Effects of Active Social Policy

Bolvig, Iben; Jensen, Peter; Rosholm, Michael - 2021

We analyse the effects of active social policy (ASP) on the dynamics of welfare dependence. We evaluate the impact of various ASP measures (employment and training) on the duration of welfare spells and subsequent employment spells, based on data from Denmark. The results show that employment...

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