Title: Do workfare participants recover quickly from retrenchment?
Description: A lot can be learned about the impact of an antipoverty program by studying income replacement for those observed to leave the program after its retrenchment. A Bank-supported workfare program in Argentina is found to have a sizeable impact on participants' incomes.
Subjects: Economic assistance, Welfare recipients, Employment, Downsizing of organizations, World Bank
Places: Argentina, Income