Author: David Edward Card
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
How Important are "entry Effects" in Financial Incentive Programs for Welfare Recipients?
Author: David Edward Card
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-income Families
Author: Rebecca M. Blank
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This paper investigates the impact of financial incentive programs, which have become an increasingly common component of welfare programs. We review experimental evidence from several such programs. Financial incentive programs appear to increase work and raise income (lower poverty), but cost somewhat more than alternative welfare programs. In particular, windfall beneficiaries -- those who would have been working anyway -- can raise costs by participating in the program. Several existing programs limit this effect by targeting long-term welfare recipients or by limiting benefits to full-time workers. At the same time, because financial incentive programs transfer support to working low-income families, the increase in costs due to windfall beneficiaries makes these programs more effective at alleviating poverty and raising incomes. Evidence also indicates that combining financial incentive programs with job search and job support services can increase both employment and income gains. Non-experimental evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and from state Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) programs with enhanced earnings disregards also suggests that these programs increase employment, and this evidence is consistent with the experimental evidence on the impact of financial incentive programs.
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This paper investigates the impact of financial incentive programs, which have become an increasingly common component of welfare programs. We review experimental evidence from several such programs. Financial incentive programs appear to increase work and raise income (lower poverty), but cost somewhat more than alternative welfare programs. In particular, windfall beneficiaries -- those who would have been working anyway -- can raise costs by participating in the program. Several existing programs limit this effect by targeting long-term welfare recipients or by limiting benefits to full-time workers. At the same time, because financial incentive programs transfer support to working low-income families, the increase in costs due to windfall beneficiaries makes these programs more effective at alleviating poverty and raising incomes. Evidence also indicates that combining financial incentive programs with job search and job support services can increase both employment and income gains. Non-experimental evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and from state Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) programs with enhanced earnings disregards also suggests that these programs increase employment, and this evidence is consistent with the experimental evidence on the impact of financial incentive programs.
Encouraging Work Reducing Poverty
Author: Gordon L. Berlin
Publisher:
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work?
Author: David Edward Card
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Category : Aid to families with dependent children programs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aid to families with dependent children programs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Employment and Income
Author: Dan Bloom
Publisher:
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Do Work Incentives Have Unintended Consequences?
Author: Gordon Berlin
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Category : Aid to families with dependent children programs
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
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Category : Aid to families with dependent children programs
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Women and Work
Author: Richard Chaykowski
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773574239
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Women and Work offers analyses of women and the labour market with respect to a wide range of topics that include technological change, skill requirements, and training; income security programs and work decisions of lone parents; the dynamics of welfare participation; school-to-work transitions; equality legislation; and collective bargaining, remuneration, and workplace benefits. Contributors include Gordon Betcherman (Canadian Policy Research Networks and Ekos Research associates), Marie-Thérèse Chicha (Université de Montréal), Ross Finnie (Queen's University and Statistics Canada), John Greenwood (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation), Andrew Jackson (Canadian Labour Congress), Constantine Kapsalis (Data Probe Economic Consulting), Darren Lauzon (HRDC and Statistics Canada), Norm Leckie (Ekos Research Associates), Brenda Lipsett (Human Resources Development Canada), Mark Reesor (Human Resources Development Canada), Ted Wannell (Statistics Canada), Caroline L. Weber (Queen's University), and I'ik Urla Zeytino'lu (McMaster University).
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773574239
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Women and Work offers analyses of women and the labour market with respect to a wide range of topics that include technological change, skill requirements, and training; income security programs and work decisions of lone parents; the dynamics of welfare participation; school-to-work transitions; equality legislation; and collective bargaining, remuneration, and workplace benefits. Contributors include Gordon Betcherman (Canadian Policy Research Networks and Ekos Research associates), Marie-Thérèse Chicha (Université de Montréal), Ross Finnie (Queen's University and Statistics Canada), John Greenwood (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation), Andrew Jackson (Canadian Labour Congress), Constantine Kapsalis (Data Probe Economic Consulting), Darren Lauzon (HRDC and Statistics Canada), Norm Leckie (Ekos Research Associates), Brenda Lipsett (Human Resources Development Canada), Mark Reesor (Human Resources Development Canada), Ted Wannell (Statistics Canada), Caroline L. Weber (Queen's University), and I'ik Urla Zeytino'lu (McMaster University).
Can Work Incentives Pay for Themselves? : Final Report on the Self-Sufficiency Project for Welfare Applicants
Author: Reuben Ford
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Social Experimentation and Public Policymaking
Author: David H. Greenberg
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
ISBN: 9780877667117
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Social experimentation randomly assigns individuals or groups to coverage by the policy of interest or a control group and then the groups are compared in terms of outcome. Greenberg (economics, U. of Maryland), Linksz (mathematics, science, and engineering, Community College of Baltimore County), and Mandell (policy sciences, U. of Maryland) seek to assess whether the substantial investment in social experimentation in the United States has resulted in significant public policy changes. After explaining the general concepts behind social experimentation, they analyze five case studies and determine that they are not of decisive importance in state policy making, but they often serve useful purposes of policy formation. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
ISBN: 9780877667117
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Social experimentation randomly assigns individuals or groups to coverage by the policy of interest or a control group and then the groups are compared in terms of outcome. Greenberg (economics, U. of Maryland), Linksz (mathematics, science, and engineering, Community College of Baltimore County), and Mandell (policy sciences, U. of Maryland) seek to assess whether the substantial investment in social experimentation in the United States has resulted in significant public policy changes. After explaining the general concepts behind social experimentation, they analyze five case studies and determine that they are not of decisive importance in state policy making, but they often serve useful purposes of policy formation. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Impact of Financial Incentives in Welfare Systems on Family Structure
Author: Bruce Stafford
Publisher:
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Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
There is much debate on whether financial incentives and disincentives in the welfare system affect union formation and childbearing. This report examines the evidence, focusing on studies from the last decade from English speaking countries which look at such measures as welfare benefits, tax credits, and employment programmes, and their impact on single parenthood, marriage, cohabitation, divorce, and childbearing rates. These include studies on the iintroduction of the Working Families Tax Credit in Great Britain; the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the United States; as well as some studies from Australia, including the Family Tax Benefit. The report concludes with the implications for welfare policy in Great Britain, and the methodological problems of researching welfare systems and family structure.
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Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
There is much debate on whether financial incentives and disincentives in the welfare system affect union formation and childbearing. This report examines the evidence, focusing on studies from the last decade from English speaking countries which look at such measures as welfare benefits, tax credits, and employment programmes, and their impact on single parenthood, marriage, cohabitation, divorce, and childbearing rates. These include studies on the iintroduction of the Working Families Tax Credit in Great Britain; the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the United States; as well as some studies from Australia, including the Family Tax Benefit. The report concludes with the implications for welfare policy in Great Britain, and the methodological problems of researching welfare systems and family structure.