The importance of considering debt and young children in activation: A survival analysis of return to welfare

• Main Authors: NG, Irene N. Y., TAN, Jian Qi, MATHEW, Mathews, HO, Kong Weng, TING, Yi Ting
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Welfare return; activation; debt and arrears; infant and toddler child; bandwidth tax; Asian Studies; Public Economics; Social Welfare
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2518; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3517/viewcontent/Ng_et_al_2021_debt_and_young_children_in_activation.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

While there has been much research on welfare exit and entry into employment, less research has looked at return to government assistance. Applying survival analysis on data from a national government assistance programme in Singapore, we found two important factors of welfare return to which activa...