The literature on public social expenditure envisages a role for the composition of public social expenditure in the design of policies to reduce inequality and promote economic growth. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on which to ground social policy decisions. This study...

We document the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Brazilian labor market focusing on employment, wages and hours worked using the nationally representative household surveys PNAD-Continua and PNAD COVID. Sectors most susceptible to the shock because they are more...

Jährlich werden rund 54,9 Milliarden Euro für die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe (KJH) verausgabt (Stand 2018). Diese verteilen sich jedoch nicht homogen auf die Gemeinden in der Bundesrepublik, sondern je nach sozialen Herausforderungen. Dabei fehlt es an einer interkommunalen Vergleichbarkeit der...

The large increase in economic inequality and the dismantling of the welfare state in Western democracies has been connected to the rise of populist parties. If populist voting is explained by fear and labor market insecurity and if people care more about procedural fairness than inequality of...