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An Analysis of Worker Sectoral Choice: Public vs. Private Employment 0 0 1 10 1 3 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 4 8 269
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 40
Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior 0 0 0 33 1 3 13 244
Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the U.S. and Canada 0 0 1 87 1 7 11 1,168
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 0 0 1 1,301 6 17 31 6,137
Evaluating the Connection Between Social Protection and Economic Flexib ility 0 0 1 89 0 5 7 750
Exploring Gender Differences in Employment and Wage Trends Among Less-Skilled Workers 0 0 0 169 1 5 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 8 1 4 6 102
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 139 1 4 7 616
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 81 1 8 9 496
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 177 0 4 8 1,123
How Important is Welfare Dependence? 0 0 0 34 3 6 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 0 5 7 104
Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty 0 0 4 406 1 7 23 1,077
Minnesota Agricultural Economist No. 576 0 0 0 3 3 5 7 35
No Easy Answers: Comparative Labor Market Problems in the United States Versus Europe 0 0 0 465 3 5 7 2,905
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 8 10 437
Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States vs. The United Kingdom 0 0 0 236 2 7 10 1,960
RECENT TRENDS IN HOUSING CONCITIONS AMONG THE URBAN POOR 0 0 0 1 4 8 10 369
Race and Gender in the Labor Market 0 0 0 6 0 7 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 1 68 1 7 12 577
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 0 0 5 1 8 8 61
Simultaneously Modelling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work Among Female Household Heads 0 0 0 5 0 4 6 32
Social Organization and Drug Law Enforcement 0 0 0 0 1 6 6 620
State Abortion Rates: The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment 0 0 0 391 4 10 11 5,332
The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor 0 0 0 206 1 2 3 899
The Dynamics of Part-Time Work 0 0 2 310 0 3 9 1,191
The Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reforms 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 351
The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families 0 0 1 92 0 2 4 314
U.S. Welfare Reform: What's Relevant for Europe? 0 0 0 195 0 4 8 422
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 64 1 7 13 454
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 0 0 181 1 11 14 1,153
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads 0 0 0 1 0 3 8 915
What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 0 0 0 1 1 5 10 1,178
What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 0 0 0 754 3 13 19 2,361
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 1 1 2 443 2 8 13 1,542
When Do Women Use AFDC & Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility vs. Participation 0 0 0 179 0 6 12 1,494
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 0 0 0 4 1 2 5 31
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 0 0 0 10 0 5 8 134
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 0 0 0 67 0 7 10 799
Why are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 0 0 0 8 1 4 5 295
Total Working Papers 1 1 14 7,528 48 253 437 50,570


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 0 2 6 208
An Analysis of Workers' Choice between Employment in the Public and Private Sectors 0 0 1 28 2 3 5 314
An Overview of Welfare-to-Work Efforts 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 11
Analyzing the length of welfare spells 0 0 3 208 0 3 10 447
Book Review: Industrial Relations Theory: America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2
Can equity and efficiency complement each other? 0 0 0 118 1 10 16 647
Changes in Inequality and Unemployment over the 1980s: Comparative Cross-National Responses 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 501
Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990's 1 1 1 67 3 7 9 261
Declining caseloads/increased work: what can we conclude about the effects of welfare reform? 0 0 0 85 0 4 6 316
Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Fighting Poverty: Lessons from Recent U.S. History 0 0 0 165 2 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 3 9 1,411
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 0 0 2 81 3 13 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 3 6 8 76
Introduction 0 0 0 7 0 3 4 46
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 1 3 7 7
Policy Watch: Proposals for Time-Limited Welfare 0 0 0 31 0 4 5 220
Policy Watch: The 1996 Welfare Reform 0 0 0 244 0 5 8 1,619
Poverty, Income Distribution, and Growth: Are They Still Connected 0 1 3 94 2 9 18 283
Poverty, Policy, and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics 0 0 3 28 2 10 14 95
Presidential address: How to improve poverty measurement in the United States 0 0 0 33 1 5 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 0 5 13 1,215
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 4 7 310
Selecting Among Anti-Poverty Policies: Can an Economist be Both Critical and Caring? 0 1 3 298 0 5 14 676
Short-Term Recidivism among Public-Assistance Recipients 0 0 0 128 0 3 6 612
Simultaneously Modeling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work among Female Household Heads 0 0 0 77 1 4 6 313
State abortion rates the impact of policies, providers, politics, demographics, and economic environment 0 0 2 100 2 5 13 506
Strong Employment, Low Inflation: How Has the US Economy Done So Well? 0 0 0 149 1 3 5 645
THE WAR ON POVERTY: MEASUREMENT, TRENDS, AND POLICY 0 0 0 17 2 7 12 99
Teen pregnancy: government programs are not the cause 0 0 0 136 1 8 10 1,497
The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families 0 0 0 82 1 8 11 236
The Effect of Medical Need and Medicaid on AFDC Participation 0 0 3 15 3 9 16 105
The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing: Experimental Evidence from The American Economic Review 0 4 11 616 2 27 103 4,787
The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low‐Income Families 0 0 0 24 0 4 5 132
The Role of Part-Time Work in Women's Labor Market Choices over Time 0 0 0 9 1 6 14 511
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 1 8 16 627
The impact of state economic differentials on household welfare and labor force behavior 0 0 0 44 0 4 9 129
Tracing the Economic Impact of Cumulative Discrimination 0 0 1 74 1 3 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 0 6 6 280
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 1 1 2 47 1 8 18 227
What Drives American Competitiveness? 0 0 1 2 0 4 6 11
What do economists have to contribute to policy decision-making? 0 0 2 369 1 5 10 788
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 0 0 0 128 1 6 8 616
When Do Women Use Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility Versus Participation 0 0 2 78 1 9 16 239
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970s? 0 0 0 27 0 5 9 277
Total Journal Articles 2 10 45 4,447 46 267 532 25,867
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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 5 6 240
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 240


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Evaluating the Connection between Social Protection and Economic Flexibility 0 0 0 32 1 3 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 11 13 69
Race and gender in the labor market 2 14 69 5,325 18 90 279 14,331
Responding to Need: A Comparison of Social Safety Nets in Canada and the United States 0 0 0 41 0 2 6 230
Total Chapters 2 14 69 5,430 19 109 319 14,869


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