@techreport{Hamermesh2000Reforming,
abstract = {This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social
experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial
incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm
the importance of financial incentives in the welfare participation and work decisions of lowincome
single mothers. Enhanced incentives induce a significant fraction of welfare recipients to
leave the program and enter work. They also have a relatively large anti-poverty effect.
Moreover, when incentives are offered to relatively short-term recipients, they can actually save
the government money.},
author = {Daniel S. Hamermesh},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I38; 330; Welfare reform; financial incentives; Workfare; Sozialreform; Selbsthilfe; \"{O}konomischer Anreiz; Sozialhilfeempf\"{a}nger; Arbeitsangebot; Kanada},
language = {eng},
number = {172},
title = {Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21015},
year = {2000}
}
