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| Title: | | The desirability of workfare as a welfare ordeal: Revisited  |
| Authors: | | Blumkin, Tomer Margalioth, Yoram Sadka, Efraim |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5130 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper we challenge the conventional wisdom that using workfare as a supplementary screening device to means-testing is socially undesirable when the overnment objective is welfarist, namely, to ensure that all members of society will attain some minimal level of utility. Our argument suggests that when misreporting of income by welfare claimants is sufficiently manifest, introducing work requirements for welfare eligibility economizes on government expenditure and is socially desirable. |
| Subjects: | | workfare welfare means-testing misreporting utility maintenance |
| JEL: | | D6 H2 H5 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201010132851 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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