Employment insurance, social assistance and other transfers

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• 1. Earnings instability Archived

  Articles and reports: 75-001-X200611013172

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  Using tax data, this paper examines earnings instability among lone parents, unattached individuals, and two-parent families over the past two decades. When income tax effects and main sources of income were considered, no strong evidence of a widespread increase in instability was found. Government transfers play a particularly important role in reducing the earnings instability of lone mothers and unattached individuals

  Release date: 2006-12-20

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• 2. Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach Archived

  Articles and reports: 11F0019M2006280

  Geography: Province or territory

  Description:

  Before 1989, childless social assistance recipients in Quebec under age 30 received much lower benefits than recipients over age 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to estimate the effects of social assistance on various labour market outcomes using a regression discontinuity approach. We find strong evidence that more generous social assistance benefits reduce employment. The estimates exhibit little sensitivity to the degree of flexibility in the specification, and perform very well when we control for unobserved heterogeneity using a first difference specification. Finally, we show that commonly used difference-in-differences estimators may perform poorly with inappropriately chosen control groups.

  Release date: 2006-06-14

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• 1. Earnings instability Archived

  Articles and reports: 75-001-X200611013172

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  Using tax data, this paper examines earnings instability among lone parents, unattached individuals, and two-parent families over the past two decades. When income tax effects and main sources of income were considered, no strong evidence of a widespread increase in instability was found. Government transfers play a particularly important role in reducing the earnings instability of lone mothers and unattached individuals

  Release date: 2006-12-20

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• 2. Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach Archived

  Articles and reports: 11F0019M2006280

  Geography: Province or territory

  Description:

  Before 1989, childless social assistance recipients in Quebec under age 30 received much lower benefits than recipients over age 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to estimate the effects of social assistance on various labour market outcomes using a regression discontinuity approach. We find strong evidence that more generous social assistance benefits reduce employment. The estimates exhibit little sensitivity to the degree of flexibility in the specification, and perform very well when we control for unobserved heterogeneity using a first difference specification. Finally, we show that commonly used difference-in-differences estimators may perform poorly with inappropriately chosen control groups.

  Release date: 2006-06-14

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