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Welfare and the culture of conservatism : a contextual analysis of welfare-to-work participation in North Carolina

Lansberry, Kasey; Taylor, Tiffany; Seale, Elizabeth - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 21 (2017) 1/3, pp. 20-41

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Workfare as an effective way to fight poverty : the case of India's NREGS

Ravi, Shamika; Engler, Monika - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 67 (2015), pp. 57-71

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Does workfare work well? : the case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Cho, Yoonyoung; Ruthbah, Ummul - 2018

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the … evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …'s efficiency. Moreover, further evidence is required on the impacts of work experience through workfare on subsequent labor market …

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Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Cho, Yoon Y.; Ruthbah, Ummul - 2018

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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty

Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - 2008

and high welfare dependency, such as lone mothers, were vastly overrepresented among the poor. This motivated a workfare … once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and …The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success both in terms of equality and …

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Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in the effect of employment in reducing the threat or...

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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? : evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state

Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 4, pp. 1129-1159

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Safety net for India's poor or waste of public funds? : poverty and welfare in the wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program

Klonner, Stefan; Oldiges, Christian - 2014

This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data from consumption surveys with information on the...

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Leaving poverty behind? : the effects of generous income support paired with activation

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2014

We evaluate a comprehensive activation program in Norway targeted at hard-to-employ social assistance claimants with reduced work capacity. The program offers a combination of tailored rehabilitation, training and job practice, and a generous, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims...

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Does workfare work? : India's employment guarantee during COVID-19

Narayanan, S.; Oldiges, Christian; Saha, Shree - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 34 (2022) 1, pp. 82-108

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