Quels effets attendre de réformes permettant de cumuler emploi et aide sociale ? une évaluation sur données expérimentales américaines

Translated title of the contribution: What is the work incentive effect of combining welfare with work ?areassessment using experimental data

Alisa Lewin, Eric Maurin

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Abstract

What are the effects of making it possible to combine welfare with work? The existing literature suggests that this practice has strong work-incentive effects and represents a means for reducing unemployment and welfare dependency. In this paper we reassess this thesis using new US experimental data. Our findings differ from predictions based on survey data. We find that making it possible to combine welfare with work has only very limited incentive impacts on families' work effort and significantly increases the welfare caseload. Classification JEL : I 380.

Translated title of the contributionWhat is the work incentive effect of combining welfare with work ?areassessment using experimental data
Original languageFrench
Pages (from-to)1357-1368
Number of pages12
JournalRevue Economique
Volume53
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all)

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