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An Analysis of Worker Sectoral Choice: Public vs. Private Employment 0 0 1 10 0 2 6 31
Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other? 0 0 0 650 0 3 7 3,128
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 0 0 0 45 0 3 8 269
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 40
Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior 0 0 0 33 1 3 7 245
Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the U.S. and Canada 0 0 0 87 1 4 11 1,169
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 0 0 1 1,301 0 13 30 6,137
Evaluating the Connection Between Social Protection and Economic Flexib ility 0 0 0 89 0 5 6 750
Exploring Gender Differences in Employment and Wage Trends Among Less-Skilled Workers 0 0 0 169 0 4 11 786
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low- Income Families 0 0 0 326 0 1 5 1,676
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 81 0 5 9 496
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 177 0 3 7 1,123
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 139 0 2 7 616
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 8 0 4 5 102
How Important is Welfare Dependence? 0 0 0 34 0 5 7 312
Is There a Trade-off between Unemployment and Inequality? No Easy Answers: Labor Market Problems in the United States versus Europe 0 0 0 16 1 4 8 105
Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty 0 0 4 406 0 5 23 1,077
Minnesota Agricultural Economist No. 576 0 0 0 3 2 6 9 37
No Easy Answers: Comparative Labor Market Problems in the United States Versus Europe 0 0 0 465 1 6 8 2,906
No Easy Answers: Comparative Labor Market Problems in the United States versus Europe 0 0 0 7 0 2 6 60
POVERTY, POLICY AND PLACE: HOW POVERTY AND POLICIES TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY ARE SHAPED BY LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS 0 0 0 154 1 9 11 438
Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States vs. The United Kingdom 0 0 0 236 1 7 11 1,961
RECENT TRENDS IN HOUSING CONCITIONS AMONG THE URBAN POOR 0 0 0 1 0 5 10 369
Race and Gender in the Labor Market 0 0 0 6 0 6 22 5,918
Recent Trends in Housing Conditions Among the Urban Poor 0 0 0 95 0 1 2 648
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 0 0 5 2 8 10 63
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 0 0 68 1 7 12 578
Simultaneously Modelling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work Among Female Household Heads 0 0 0 5 0 2 6 32
Social Organization and Drug Law Enforcement 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 620
State Abortion Rates: The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment 0 0 0 391 3 13 14 5,335
The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor 0 0 0 206 0 2 3 899
The Dynamics of Part-Time Work 0 0 2 310 0 3 8 1,191
The Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reforms 0 0 0 0 1 5 7 352
The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families 0 0 1 92 1 2 5 315
U.S. Welfare Reform: What's Relevant for Europe? 0 0 0 195 1 4 9 423
Welfare, Wages and Migration, An Analysis of Locational Choice by Female-Headed Households 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 24
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 0 0 181 1 10 15 1,154
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 0 0 64 1 8 14 455
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads 0 0 0 1 1 2 9 916
What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 0 0 0 1 0 2 10 1,178
What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 0 0 0 754 3 13 21 2,364
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 0 1 2 443 1 5 14 1,543
When Do Women Use AFDC & Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility vs. Participation 0 0 0 179 1 4 13 1,495
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 0 0 0 4 0 2 5 31
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 0 0 0 10 0 2 8 134
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 0 0 0 67 0 3 9 799
Why are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 0 0 0 8 0 4 5 295
Total Working Papers 0 1 11 7,528 25 216 446 50,595


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Cautionary Tale about the Use of Administrative Data: Evidence from Age of Marriage Laws 0 0 1 37 3 4 9 211
An Analysis of Workers' Choice between Employment in the Public and Private Sectors 0 0 1 28 2 4 7 316
An Overview of Welfare-to-Work Efforts 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 11
Analyzing the length of welfare spells 0 0 3 208 0 3 9 447
Book Review: Industrial Relations Theory: America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3
Can equity and efficiency complement each other? 0 0 0 118 1 9 17 648
Changes in Inequality and Unemployment over the 1980s: Comparative Cross-National Responses 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 501
Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990's 0 1 1 67 0 6 9 261
Declining caseloads/increased work: what can we conclude about the effects of welfare reform? 0 0 0 85 0 3 6 316
Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Fighting Poverty: Lessons from Recent U.S. History 0 0 0 165 0 6 9 735
Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the United States and Canada 0 0 1 135 0 2 8 1,411
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 0 0 2 81 0 11 28 2,207
Evaluating welfare and training programs, edited by Charles F. Manski and Irwin Garfinkel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992, 364 pp. Price: $39.95 cloth 0 1 1 20 0 6 8 76
Introduction 0 0 0 7 1 4 5 47
Job creation and destruction; What employers want: Job prospects for less-educated workers; and does training for the disadvantaged work? Evidence from the national JTPA study 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 46
Newly Poor Women and the Social Safety Net, 1990–2010 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 7
Policy Watch: Proposals for Time-Limited Welfare 0 0 0 31 1 5 6 221
Policy Watch: The 1996 Welfare Reform 0 0 0 244 0 4 8 1,619
Poverty, Income Distribution, and Growth: Are They Still Connected 1 1 4 95 2 8 20 285
Poverty, Policy, and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics 0 0 3 28 0 8 14 95
Presidential address: How to improve poverty measurement in the United States 0 0 0 33 0 3 5 150
Promoting banking services among low-income customers 0 0 0 36 0 0 4 171
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 1 1 190 1 5 14 1,216
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives 0 0 0 6 0 4 4 67
Reviews of the 2006 Economic Report of the President 0 0 0 5 1 5 8 311
Selecting Among Anti-Poverty Policies: Can an Economist be Both Critical and Caring? 0 1 3 298 1 6 14 677
Short-Term Recidivism among Public-Assistance Recipients 0 0 0 128 0 1 6 612
Simultaneously Modeling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work among Female Household Heads 0 0 0 77 2 4 8 315
State abortion rates the impact of policies, providers, politics, demographics, and economic environment 0 0 1 100 0 4 12 506
Strong Employment, Low Inflation: How Has the US Economy Done So Well? 0 0 0 149 2 5 7 647
THE WAR ON POVERTY: MEASUREMENT, TRENDS, AND POLICY 0 0 0 17 1 8 13 100
Teen pregnancy: government programs are not the cause 0 0 0 136 3 8 13 1,500
The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families 0 0 0 82 1 5 12 237
The Effect of Medical Need and Medicaid on AFDC Participation 0 0 2 15 0 5 15 105
The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing: Experimental Evidence from The American Economic Review 0 1 10 616 14 25 115 4,801
The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low‐Income Families 0 0 0 24 1 5 5 133
The Role of Part-Time Work in Women's Labor Market Choices over Time 0 0 0 9 0 6 13 511
The State of British Economics 0 0 0 79 0 1 2 890
The effect of welfare and wage levels on the location decisions of female-headed households 0 0 1 205 0 6 15 627
The impact of state economic differentials on household welfare and labor force behavior 0 0 0 44 0 3 9 129
Tracing the Economic Impact of Cumulative Discrimination 0 0 1 74 0 2 9 284
U.S. Welfare Reform: What's Relevant for Europe? 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 15
Was Welfare Reform Successful? 0 0 0 122 1 7 7 281
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 1 2 47 0 5 18 227
What Drives American Competitiveness? 0 0 1 2 0 2 6 11
What do economists have to contribute to policy decision-making? 0 0 2 369 0 3 10 788
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 0 0 0 128 1 7 9 617
When Do Women Use Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility Versus Participation 0 0 1 78 1 6 16 240
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970s? 0 0 0 27 0 4 9 277
Total Journal Articles 1 7 42 4,448 41 239 562 25,908
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off? 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 240
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 240


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Evaluating the Connection between Social Protection and Economic Flexibility 0 0 0 32 0 2 11 136
Introduction to "Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?" 0 0 0 21 0 3 10 103
Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States versus the United Kingdom 0 0 0 11 0 8 13 69
Race and gender in the labor market 8 13 75 5,333 29 89 295 14,360
Responding to Need: A Comparison of Social Safety Nets in Canada and the United States 0 0 0 41 0 1 6 230
Total Chapters 8 13 75 5,438 29 103 335 14,898


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