Workfare schemes impose work requirements on beneficiaries. This has seemed an attractive idea for self-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare is more cost-effective against poverty than even poorly-targeted options, given hidden costs of participation. In particular, even poor workfare participants in a labor-surplus economy can be expected to have some forgone income when they take up such...
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2013/10/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS6673
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2013/10/01
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Disclosed
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Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy?
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per capita consumption level