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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

Autor, David; Houseman, Susan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan welfare-to-work program in which program participants were randomly … placing participants in either temporary or direct-hire jobs improves their odds of leaving welfare and escaping poverty in … the short term. However, we find that only direct-hire placements help reduce welfare dependency over longer time horizons …

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Welfare reform and the intergenerational transmission of dependence

Hartley, Robert Paul; Lamarche, Carlos; Ziliak, James P. - 2017

We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related … Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at different times starting in 1992, the cross-state variation over time … permits us to quasi-experimentally separate out the effect of mothers' welfare participation during childhood on daughters …

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Fighting lone mothers' poverty through in-work benefits : methodological issues and policy suggestions

Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013

Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would …

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Inequality, poverty and child benefits : evidence from a natural experiment

Paradowski, Piotr R.; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna; … - 2020 - This version: July 9, 2020

We assess the impact of a new policy action in the form of cash child benefit introduced in Poland in 2016 (the program Family 500 +) on inequality and poverty. The analysis is based on micro-level household data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and Statistics Poland. We examine the...

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Labour income, social transfers and child poverty

Bradbury, Bruce; Jäntti, Markus; Lindahl, Lena - 2017 - Version: July 2017

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...

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Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana

Evans, Martin - 2018

This paper considers the case for universal child allowances in Ghana. It follows findings from an earlier study of 14 middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances. The paper describes the demographic profiles that...

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Income support to families with children in Spain

Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel - 2021

Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in providing income support to families with children. In...

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The effect of child benefits on financial difficulties and spending habits: evidence from Poland's Family 500+ program

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021

In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and low-income, one-child families. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we explore the causal...

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Universal child allowances in 14 middle income countries : options for policy and poverty reduction

Evans, Martin; Hidalgo, Alejandra; Wang, Mei - 2018

This paper uses data from 14 Middle Income Countries in the Luxembourg Income Study database to examine the position of children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers from state social protection systems compared to...

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Labor supply effects of a universal cash transfer

Gromadzki, Jan - 2023

I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. I exploit the unique design of the child benefit program in Poland to identify the income effects of the monthly transfer in a difference-in-differences design. On average, the marginal propensity...

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