The Impact of income support programs on transitions to employment

The income support programs are created with the purpose of fighting both, the poverty trap and the inactivity trap. The balance between both is fragile and hard to find. Thus, the goal of this work is to contribute to solve this issue by finding how income support programs, particularly the Portuguese RSI, affect transitions to employment. This is made through duration analysis, namely using Cox and Competing Risks models. A particular feature is introduced in this work as it incorporates the possibility of Defective Risks. The estimated hazard elasticity with respect to the amount of RSI received for individuals who move to employment is -0,41. More than a half of RSI receivers stays for more than a year and the probability of never leaving to employment is 44%. The results appear to indicate that RSI has affected negatively transitions to employment.

Crop price-support programs : policy options for contemporary agriculture.

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Income maintenance programs and multidimensional screening

This paper examines properties of optimal poverty assistance programs under different informational environments using an income maintenanceframework. To that end, we make both the income generating ability andthe disutility of labor of individuals unobservable, and compare theresulting benefit schedules with those of programs found in the UnitedStates since Welfare Reform (1996). We find that optimal programs closelyresemble a Negative Income Tax with a Benefit Reduction rate that dependson the distribution of population characteristics. A policy of workfare(unpaid public sector work) is inefficient when disutility of labor isunobservable, but minimum work requirements (for paid work) may be usedin that same environment. The distortions to work incentives and thepresence of minimum work requirements depend on the observability andrelative importance of the population's characteristics.

Relationships, Income Support and Decision Making: A Qualitative Synopsis

This qualitative study of one midwestern state’s child protective services addresses whether an income support measure for poor biological caregivers reduces the length of time that their children spend in foster care. The overall findings suggest that workers do value the worker-family relationship. However, some view the immediate worker-client relationship as secondary to the inclusion of extended familial supports particularly as related to sustained more long-term outcome achievement. Most workers additionally agree that client involvement during all phases of the reunification process is critical.

National Institute of Mental Health: support programs.

1967 ed. prepared by the Public Information Branch, National Institute of Mental Health.

Income security programs : past, present and future /

"October, 1980."

Unemployment insurance and proliferation of other income protection programs for experienced workers.

Written by Mamoru Ishikawa.

Using estimates of income and substitution parameters to predict the work incentive effects of various income maintenance programs : a brief exposition and partial survey of the empirical literature /

Bibliography: leaves [7-9] (2d group).

Income support for workers dislocated by federal policy initiatives /

"July 5, 1990."

Social security financing and options for the future [microform] : hearings before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Income Maintenance Programs of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session ....

"July 10, 1981"--Pt.2.

National Commission on Social Security Reform recommendations : hearing before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Income Maintenance Programs of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, February 15, 16, 22, 23, and 24, 1983.

Item 1038-A, 1038-B (microfiche)

Commercialization of synthetic fuels : alternative loan guarantee and price support programs /

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