Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance. We also find some evidence that higher welfare benefits had …We estimate the longer-run effects of minimum wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and welfare on key economic … longer-run adverse effects, and quite robust evidence that tighter welfare time limits reduce poverty and public assistance …

employment. The model incorporates the main features of many unemployment insurance and welfare programs, including eligibility … Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), an experiment providing generous financial incentives to exit welfare and obtain stable … control group and simulate the experiment within the model. The model matches the welfare-to-work transition of the treatment …

extending these transfers in Ireland, where support for low-wage households has been of limited scope. The employment and …

and has announced plans to intensify such regulation in the near future. Using a simple model we examine the welfare … increases welfare only on a small scale. Due to the fact that a price regulation limits the free choice of both marketing … the market. Our model shows that price regulation may fail to enhance welfare if the enterprise advertises its products …

, as well as eligibility-rules for a number of welfare programs, such as social assistance, housing allowance etc. The … income for various combinations of hours of work and welfare. It can be used for calculating accurate (net) household incomes … conditional on labour supply while income tax rules and the various welfare benefit-levels are complicated functions of earned and …

, which may decrease with UI benefits. In this paper, we estimate the impact of UI eligibility on employment, means …