Work Requirements and Long Term Poverty

F. Schroyen and Gaute Torsvik

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

Abstract: We evaluate the costs of three different programs for alleviating long term poverty: (i) workfare, or grants made contingent on a work requirement, (ii) universal welfare, or unconditional grants, and (iii) means-tested welfare, or grants conditioned on private labor market earnings. We identify the conditions under which each of these programs are cost efficient and compare them with the corresponding conditions for short term poverty alleviation.

Keywords: POVERTY; PUBLIC EXPENDITURES; SOCIAL WELFARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 H55 I31 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 1999
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