Do Welfare Policies Matter for Labor Market Aggregates? Quantifying Safety Net Work Incentives since 2007

Inflation-adjusted spending on means-tested subsidies has increased sharply since 2007, and most of the growth was due to changes in eligibility rules, and increases in subsidies per eligible person, rather than increases in the number of people who would have been eligible under pre-recession2007年以来，经通胀调整后的家计调查型补贴（means-tested subsidies）支出已大幅攀升。此次增长的主要动因来自准入资格规则的调整，以及单名符合资格受助者的补贴标准提升，而非经济衰退前即具备受助资格的受益人数的增长。