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democratic welfare states radically diVer from corporatist ones: whereas the former are characterized by high labor market parti ...

What was the impact of those changes? Perhaps surprisingly, given the scale and size of the reforms, this question is not easy t ...

The reason for this turn of events, according to Murray, was precisely the huge expansion of welfare state programs, which encou ...

jointly, and where there is also unpaid but essential household production work to be done. The trade-oVis therefore not simply ...

Welfare state arrangements and even public transfers can also help to keep persons inwork. This was after all one of the objecti ...

advanced in this regard. Families will be more willing to provide help when burdens are not too heavy. Also, generous pensions e ...

impact of policies. Theory can guide us as to what to look for, but often the direction of the eVects, and almost always their m ...

strongly that mothers with young children continue working, or return to the labor force after a time, if a package of beneWts a ...

Blank, R., and Ellwood,D. 2001 .The Clinton Legacy for American’s Poor. NBER Working Paper No. 6998. Cambridge, Mass.: National ...

Heckman, J., Lalonde, R., and Smith,J. 1999. The economics and econometrics of active labor market programs. Pp.1865 2097inHandb ...

Verbist,G. 2004. Herverdeling door deWscus. EVecten van de personenbelasting op de inkomensongelijkheid in Belgie ̈en andere OES ...

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of policy analysis, policy evaluation is an indispensable tool for feedback, learning, and thus improvement. In the real world o ...

and the adequacy of the response were subject to speculation and controversy, including the taking of provisional disciplinary s ...

episodes is not a politically neutral activity, which can be done by fully detached, unencumbered individuals (Bovens and ’t Har ...

rationale and objectives, a recalibration of the mix of policy instruments it relies on, a reorganization of its service deliver ...

harsh. ‘‘TheWeld of evaluation is currently undergoing an identity crisis,’’ lamented two advocates of the positivist approach t ...

3.1 Rationalistic Policy Evaluation The rationalists advocate a rigorous separation of facts and values and explicitly strive to ...

decision makers, but also that context-sensitive, biased, and argumentative evalu- ators are ‘‘engaged in something other than e ...

Likewise, the standardized comparison of budgetary and performanceWgures employed by think tanks such as the OECD leaves open mu ...