Sticks and Carrots for the Alleviation of Long Term Poverty

F. Schroyen and Gaute Torsvik

Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen from Department of Economics, University of Bergen

Abstract: Work requirements can make it easier to screen the poor from the non-poor. They can also affect future poverty by changing the poors' incentive to invest in their income capacity. The novelty of our study is the focus on long term poverty.

Keywords: POVERTY; INCOME; INVESTMENTS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2001
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