The impact of a stronger work requirement for welfare recipients in a workfare program is studied in an efficiency wage … model where a representative firm chooses its level of monitoring activities. A stricter workfare policy raises employment … ambiguous. Utility levels of employed workers and welfare recipients may increase even if the net wage declines. The utility …

The impacts of introducing work requirements for welfare recipients are studied in an efficiency wage model. If the … workfare package is not mandatory, it will reduce employment, profits, and utility levels of employed and unemployed workers … variation in the net wage. The possibility of a Pareto improvement may explain the widespread support for welfare to work …

The impact of a stronger work requirement for welfare recipients in a workfare program is studied in an efficiency wage … model where a representative firm chooses its level of monitoring activities. A stricter workfare policy raises employment … ambiguous. Utility levels of employed workers and welfare recipients may increase even if the net wage declines. The utility …

The impacts of introducing work requirements for welfare recipients are studied in an efficiency wage model. If the … workfare package is not mandatory, it will reduce employment, profits, and utility levels of employed and unemployed workers … variation in the net wage. The possibility of a Pareto improvement may explain the widespread support for welfare to work …

work, that workfare harms the welfare of the poor and thereby reduces a society’s welfare in general. This paper analyzes … mutually exclusive. Welfare increases due to the fact that out of the three effects workfare entails, beyond the detected …Abstract Opponents of work obligations in return for transfer payments argue that workfare can crowd out private sector …

Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds … past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by using administrative data on welfare recipients in Missouri and North … Carolina to obtain separate estimates of the effects of participating in sub-programs of each state's welfare-to-work program …

In this paper we challenge the conventional wisdom that using workfare as a supplementary screening device to means … attain some minimal level of utility. Our argument suggests that when misreporting of income by welfare claimants is … sufficiently manifest, introducing work requirements for welfare eligibility economizes on government expenditure and is socially …

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 …