Earnings Supplementation as a Means to Re-integrate the Unemployed

John Greenwood

Canadian Public Policy, 2000, vol. 26, issue s1, 235-256

Abstract: This paper presents evidence from two randomized experiments testing the use of financial incentives to ecourage labour market participation. The Self-Sufficiency Project shows that supplementing earnings from low-paying, full-time jobs can increase employment among single-parents who are long-term welfare recipients, can raise their earnings and incomes, and may entail little net increase in government transfers net of taxes. In the Earnings Supplement Project, however, the offer to partially compensate unemployment insurance recipients who returned to work quickly and experienced earnings losses had no impact on the labour force behaviour of repeat users of UI and only a small and short-lived impact with displaced workers. The paper includes a discussion of the issues that need to be addressed in trying to stimulate work effort using financial incentives and concludes with some lessons drawn from the research findings.

Date: 2000
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