Although several studies examine the barriers to employment that limit the employability of welfare recipients, they have not analyzed how these barriers might be different for residents of central cities than for residents in surrounding suburban areas. We consider how the prevalence of barriers to employment varies by race and place in metropolitan Detroit. We find that the prevalence of ment...

Research indeed offers some evidence that different measures may not be identical. For example, material hardship does not appear to be strongly correlated with poverty in the United States or in Europe. The evidence is, however, somewhat contradictory. One study found that low-wage working mothers experienced higher levels of hardship than welfare recipients, but others have found that those w...

In a national cohort study, the family and labor market situation, health problems, and education of 5,942 Swedish intercountry adoptees born between 1968 and 1975 were examined and compared with those of the general population, immigrants, and a siblings group--all age matched--in national registers from 1997 to 1999. Adoptees more often had psychiatric problems and were longtime recipients of...

The number of social assistance recipients varies significantly between welfare states. Social is a last-resort residual benefit, so high receipts may be related to policies for first-tier benefits, and their implementation, as well need factors (unemployment rate low income). Considering the strong political will diminish receipt we demonstrated way decompose reasons eligibility in cross-natio...

Universal basic income (UBI) is a centuries-old policy proposal in which every citizen granted regular cash payment to provide security. One defining concept of UBI that it unconditional, unlike most modern social welfare programs. While decades pilot data suggest be superior traditional means tested assistance, public support divided and heavily based on stereotypes dependency negative consump...

Fiscal federalism is often hailed as an innovation procedure: successful policy experiments in one jurisdiction will, via imitation, spread through the entire system, leading to overall better policy performance. We show that such hopes set in laboratory federalism may be ill-founded. For a standard framework of decentralized redistribution in a common labor market with mobile transfer recipien...

BACKGROUND Previous research has observed large inequalities in the distribution of welfare benefits. The Norwegian welfare state includes several schemes that give households with children the opportunity to apply for public income support to compensate for expenses related to chronic disease. The aims of this study were to examine the geographic distribution of children receiving compensatory...

This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to answer two questions about the effects of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program: (1) Does the length of time that one receives AFDC affect the likelihood of permanently leaving AFDC? (2) What personal and family characteristics are associated with the long-term receipt of AFDC? The answer to the first qu...