Showing 1 - 10 of 79,777
Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian youths. Our evaluation strategy exploits a geographically differentiated implementation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449779
Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming … in an activation program for all welfare recipients below the age of 30. Analyzing the program's staggered implementation … the law change only impacting the participation of recipients with low expected gain from activation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170798
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950871
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602409
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326739
Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338814
This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year. Specifically, the reforms introduced a requirement to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770133
conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798232
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519197
The paper presents new findings on a specific 'gendered' problem resulting from 'activation policies' and a certain … quantitatively significant and reveals systematic failures of activation strategies: In contrast with claims of greater social … inclusion through 'activation, it can be seen that currently nearly a quarter of a million people in Germany are registered as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342256