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We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment benefits in favour of income subsidies (social...
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In this paper, we focus on a novel and potentially important aspect of the workfare policy in the Danish labor market … of workfare reform across different age groups as the exogenous variation. Second, we use a unique policy experiment that … recipients in Farum before and after 1987 with that of the rest of Denmark, we identify the effect of workfare on the crime rate …
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We examine the efficacy of a popular anti-poverty programme, namely the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could adversely affect the welfare of the poor through two...
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