over age 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to estimate the effects of social assistance on various labour market outcomes using a regression discontinuity approach. We find strong evidence that more generous social assistance benefits paid to those not working. For example, the impetus for many of the changes to welfare programmes in the (2004) used this policy experiment to estimate the effect of social assistance on the duration of social assistanc
The results of this study largely confirm the results of the author's previous study (Kapsalis, 1996...
Work requirements remain a popular yet controversial policy in welfare programs around the world. Th...
We analyze the employment effect of a law that provides for a 36 percent increase in thegenerosity o...
International audienceNatural experiments provide robust identifying assumptions for the estimation ...
We analyze the employment effect of a law that provides for a 36% increase in the generosity of disa...
at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsi...
Natural experiments provide explicit and robust identifying assumptions for the estimation of treatm...
We analyze the employment effect of a law that provides for a 20 percent increase in the generosity ...
Social assistance is a means-tested benefit that is supposed to be a short-term, temporary economic ...
This paper examines how a change in the generosity of one social assistance program generates spillo...
Social assistance is a means-tested benefit that is supposed to be a short-term, temporary economic ...
Youth unemployment has been a persistent problem in the European Union for many years and the affect...
We analyse the dynamics of social assistance (SA) benefit receipt among working-age adults in Britai...
In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay ...
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers respond to the link on the margin betwe...
The results of this study largely confirm the results of the author's previous study (Kapsalis, 1996...
Work requirements remain a popular yet controversial policy in welfare programs around the world. Th...
We analyze the employment effect of a law that provides for a 36 percent increase in thegenerosity o...
International audienceNatural experiments provide robust identifying assumptions for the estimation ...
We analyze the employment effect of a law that provides for a 36% increase in the generosity of disa...
at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsi...
Natural experiments provide explicit and robust identifying assumptions for the estimation of treatm...
We analyze the employment effect of a law that provides for a 20 percent increase in the generosity ...
Social assistance is a means-tested benefit that is supposed to be a short-term, temporary economic ...
This paper examines how a change in the generosity of one social assistance program generates spillo...
Social assistance is a means-tested benefit that is supposed to be a short-term, temporary economic ...
Youth unemployment has been a persistent problem in the European Union for many years and the affect...
We analyse the dynamics of social assistance (SA) benefit receipt among working-age adults in Britai...
In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay ...
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers respond to the link on the margin betwe...
The results of this study largely confirm the results of the author's previous study (Kapsalis, 1996...
Work requirements remain a popular yet controversial policy in welfare programs around the world. Th...
We analyze the employment effect of a law that provides for a 36 percent increase in thegenerosity o...