they reduced welfare participation and increased employment. Both policies increased job retention once recipients were in …

In order to alleviate child poverty, contemporary European welfare states have shifted their focus increasingly towards … child-centred investment strategies. However, studies assessing the generosity of welfare states to families with children … welfare states by making use of cross-nationally comparable reference budgets, while taking into account publicly-provided or …

There is a strong intergenerational correlation in welfare participation, but this does not imply that parental welfare … parental welfare participation for children from marginal welfare participants, we know very little about intergenerational … spillovers of welfare participation onto the children of average welfare participants. By combining rich administrative data from …

Several recent studies have shown that daughters whose mothers have participated in the welfare program Aid to Families … with Dependent Children (AFDC) are themselves more likely to participate in AFDC when they head their own household. Other … that any variable correlated with income, such as AFDC participation, will also be correlated across generations. This …

implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … skilled workers, for not too high distortions in the labour market. Furthermore, it leads to a higher tax burden and a welfare …

implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … skilled workers, for not too high distortions in the labour market. Furthermore, it leads to a higher tax burden and a welfare …