Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work?

Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work?
Author: David Card
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1996
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

This paper reports on a randomized evaluation of an earnings subsidy offered to long-term welfare recipients in Canada. The program -- known as the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) -- provides a supplement equal to one-half of the difference between a target earnings level and a participant's actual earnings. The SSP supplement is similar to a negative income tax with two important differences: (1) eligibility is limited to long-term welfare recipients who find a full-time job; and (2) the payment depends on individual earnings rather than family income. Our evaluation is based on a classical randomized design: one half of a group of single parents who had been on welfare for over a year were eligible to receive the SSP supplement, while the other half were assigned to a control group. Results for an early cohort of SSP participants and controls suggest that the financial incentives of the Self-Sufficiency Program increase labor market attachment and reduce welfare participation.

Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work?

Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work?
Author: David Edward Card
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1996
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that seeks a solution to the increasing poverty and welfare dependence of single parent families, who often face the choice of continuing on welfare or working for wages that may pay less than welfare. SSP provides a third option: it offers to supplement earnings of single-parent income assistance recipients who have received benefits for at least one year, provided they leave the welfare rolls and take a full-time job. This report analyzes the SSP's impacts on employment, earnings, and welfare receipt by comparing a group of SSP-eligible persons to a non-SSP control group over the first 18 months of SSP eligibility. Results are presented on a monthly and quarterly basis. Variations in impact by program generosity and family size are also noted.

Welfare Reform

Welfare Reform
Author: Jeff GROGGER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0674037960

In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.

Making Sense of Incentives

Making Sense of Incentives
Author: Timothy J. Bartik
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0880996684

Bartik provides a clear and concise overview of how state and local governments employ economic development incentives in order to lure companies to set up shop—and provide new jobs—in needy local labor markets. He shows that many such incentive offers are wasteful and he provides guidance, based on decades of research, on how to improve these programs.

Adapting Public Policy to a Labour Market in Transition

Adapting Public Policy to a Labour Market in Transition
Author: France St-Hilaire
Publisher: IRPP
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780886451868

After two decades of rapid technological and structural change and an overall record of poor economic performance, Canadians need to take stock of the ongoing transformation of the labour market and its implications for public policy. The fundamental changes to the nature of work itself suggest that labour and social policies established decades ago may no longer be adequate or appropriate. Moreover, the continuing perception of increased instability and worsening employment outcomes, and the growing concern over increased earnings inequality and labour market polarisation, have raised serious questions about the role of government not only in addressing the consequences of economic adjustment but also in facilitating or, worse, hampering this process. In Adapting Public Policy to a Labour Market in Transition leading labour market specialists examine specific areas of public policy that have generated considerable attention and debate in recent years. They provide new evidence on issues of utmost concern to the well-being of Canadians and a solid assessment of the challenges and avenues for policy reform.

Handbook of Parent Training

Handbook of Parent Training
Author: James M. Briesmeister
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2007-07-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0470140399

A guide to the latest tools for teaching effective and positive parenting skills In the last three decades, parent training has established itself as an empirically sound, highly successful, and cost-effective intervention strategy for both pre-venting and treating behavior disorders in children. Handbook of Parent Training, Third Edition offers a unique opportunity to learn about the latest research findings and clinical developments in parent training from leading innovators in the field. Featuring new chapters, this thoroughly revised and updated edition covers issues that have emerged in recent years. Readers will find the latest information on such topics as: * Behavioral family intervention for childhood anxiety * Working with parents of aggressive school-age children * Preventive parent training techniques that support low-income, ethnic minority parents of preschoolers * Treating autism and Asperger's Syndrome * Parenting and learning tools including role playing and modeling positive and effective parenting styles Offering practical advice and guidance for parent training, each chapter author begins by identifying a specific problem and then describes the best approach to identifying, assessing, and treating the problem. In every instance, descriptions of therapeutic techniques are multimodal and integrate theory, research, implementation strategies, and extensive case material. Handbook of Parent Training, Third Edition is a valuable professional resource for child psychologists, school psychologists, and all mental health professionals with an interest in parent skills training.

Hard Labor

Hard Labor
Author: Joel F. Handler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-11-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131746981X

An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic picture of the women and the issues as well as suggested strategies and innovations. The book covers a wide range of topics, including getting and keeping a job, struggling to balance the demands of work and family, health care, child care, and unemployment. It is set in the context of both welfare reform and the low-wage labor market and incorporates both self-employment and micro-business enterprise.