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years prior to benefit receipt. We compare women's programme entries between former male breadwinner households, dual earner … households, no-earner households, and female breadwinner households. We analyse large-scale administrative data, applying …' prior division of labour in the household. In eastern Germany, by contrast, women in former male breadwinner households are …
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households, dual earner households, no-earner households, and female breadwinner households. We analyse large … male breadwinner households are actually allocated to several programmes at higher rates than women in households without a …
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Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. One important concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is more effective and for whom. Using unusually...
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Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work.  One important concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is more effective and for whom.  Using unusually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168462
This paper presents results from an evaluation of a Norwegian initiative to combat poverty launched in 2003. Central to the plan is a broad spectrum of rehabilitation and activation measures intended to help long-term social security recipients from welfare to work. We illuminate short-term...
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This paper presents results from an evaluation of a Norwegian initiative to combat poverty launched in 2003. Central to the plan is a broad spectrum of rehabilitation and activation measures intended to help long-term social security recipients from welfare to work. We illuminate short-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980905
In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of Danish active labour market programmes aimed at welfare benefit recipients. We estimate an econometric model with treatment effects and discrete outcomes and we allow the responses to treatment to vary among observationally identical persons....
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In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of Danish active labour market programmes aimed at welfare benefit recipients. We estimate an econometric model with treatment effects and discrete outcomes and we allow the responses to treatment to vary among observationally identical persons....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566714
Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit. Doch welche Gründe liegen, trotz der über die Jahre eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende...
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I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to low-income Americans is captured by more powerful market actors. I contextualize this concern as about incidence and consider both policies for changing incidence (by changing...
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