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Effects of New Welfare Reform Strategies on Welfare Participation: Microdata Estimates from Canada
Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2013
, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. This new information reveals a large decline in the chance of welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616669
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Who was affected by new welfare reform strategies? : microdata estimates from Canada
Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 14, pp. 1395-1413
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813569
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New Reform Strategies and Welfare Participation in Canada
Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
about the roles of different policy tools in accounting for declines in welfare participation. Work requirements, diversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693557
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The effects of welfare time limits on access to financial resources: evidence from the 2010s
Pepin, Gabrielle - 2020
Needy Families (TANF) program within the United States. TANF mandated 60-month lifetime time limits for federal cash … lifetime limit did not bind in all cases. In recent years, however, several states imposed TANF time limits for the first time … decrease annual TANF participation by 22 percent and annual transfer income by 6 percent. Consistent with binding TANF work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243631
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Evaluating a Structural Model of Labor Supply and Welfare Participation : Evidence from State Welfare Reform Experiments
Choi, Eleanor Jawon - 2018
This paper assesses the ability of a structural labor supply model to predict the impacts of a welfare policy change by studying two state welfare reform experiments conducted in Minnesota (MN) and Vermont (VT) during the mid-1990s. I estimate and evaluate a static discrete choice model of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907505
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The effect of child benefit on female labor supply
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/17, pp. 1-18
In 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391199
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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 economic outcomes using a long panel of mother-daughter pairs over the survey period 1968–2013 in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716174
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The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction : the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives
Collado, Diego; Cantillon, Béa; Van den Bosch, Karel; … - 2017
How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty threshold of the EU, countries must...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011676005
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The "family 500+" child allowance and female labour supply in Poland
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - 2018
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called “Family 500+”, with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914242
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The effects of large universal child benefits on female labour supply
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - 2018
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881213