employment are made (at least partially) socially acceptable through the workfare nature of the unemployment benefit system and b …

In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well …-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …

Workfare proposals concentrate on the work incentives for welfare recipients, thus focusing on the labor supply side …. This paper analyzes the effects workfare has on labor demand when the labor market is unionized. As workfare reduces the … number of recipients of public financial assistance, a workfare regime, as opposed to a welfare system, weakens the outside …

workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity … monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare appears to be inferior to the other two systems. …

, workfare may not provide the intended incentives, and flexicurity (a system that combines a flexible labor market with active …

workfare package is not mandatory, it will reduce employment, profits, and utility levels of employed and unemployed workers …