The paper explores the employment implications of allowing people the opportunity of using a portion of their incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The analysis indicates that introducing this policy could increase employment, raise the incomes of incapacity benefit recipients, and reduce employers? labour costs.
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Citation
Snower, D and M Orszag (1996), ‘DP1471 Incapacity Benefits versus Benefit Transfers‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 1471. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp1471
