Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76053 
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Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 674
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The impacts of introducing work requirements for welfare recipients are studied in an efficiency wage model. If the workfare package is not mandatory, it will reduce employment, profits, and utility levels of employed and unemployed workers. In contrast, mandatory effort requirements will generally raise both employment and profits and reduce the tax rate. The impact on the net wage is ambiguous. Changes of utility levels of employed and unemployed workers have the same sign as the variation in the net wage. The possibility of a Pareto improvement may explain the widespread support for welfare to work experiments.
Subjects: 
workfare
welfare
efficiency wages
shirking
JEL: 
E24
H53
I30
J41
J60
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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