Would Declining Exit Rates from Welfare Provide Evidence of Welfare Dependence in Homogeneous Environments?

Determinants of Welfare Exit and Employment

Leaving welfare and employment are modeled and estimated simultaneously to determine which outcome has the greatest influence on the other. Wage outcomes and the relative influence of policy/economic versus demographic change in determining outcomes are also explored. Pooled cross-sectional data are used from six urban areas in six different states allowing a comparison across both economic and...

Incentives in the Welfare State : Lessons for would - be welfare states

Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation: The Role of Entry and Exit Rates

Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation: The Role of Entry and Exit Rates This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other things, and ...

State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation

State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years 1993-2000. The data indicates that there are substantial...

Welfare Impacts of Soaring Food Prices on Iranian Urban Households: Evidence from survey data

Abstract: On December 2010, the government of Iran ended the decades-long subsidy program for bread and energy products and launched the Targeted Subsidy Reform program that considerably raised prices of food products. The objective of the study was to measure welfare impacts of food price changes on Iranian urban households between two survey data of 2009/10 and 2011/12 which were taken from I...