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 …

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

Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help … place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer … benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the effects of temporary help firms on the labor market outcomes of welfare …

We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two … municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with relatively high benefits and low incentives for single mothers to leave welfare for … work. In our analysis, we make a distinction between native and immigrant welfare recipients. For immigrant single mothers …