Arbeitspapier
Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System
This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance of financial incentives in the welfare participation and work decisions of lowincome single mothers. Enhanced incentives induce a significant fraction of welfare recipients to leave the program and enter work. They also have a relatively large anti-poverty effect. Moreover, when incentives are offered to relatively short-term recipients, they can actually save the government money.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 172
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- Thema
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Welfare reform
financial incentives
Workfare
Sozialreform
Selbsthilfe
Ökonomischer Anreiz
Sozialhilfeempfänger
Arbeitsangebot
Kanada
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Hamermesh, Daniel S.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2000
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hamermesh, Daniel S.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2000
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