Search Results - subject:"social assistance"

The effects of reforms to the Work Capability Assessment for incapacity benefits

Ray-Chaudhuri, Sam; Waters, Tom - 2023

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What can 20 billion financial transactions tell us about the impacts of COVID-19 fiscal transfers?

Pongpitch Amatyakul; Panchanok Jumrustanasan; … - 2023

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Essays in macroeconomics : worker and firm dynamics

Walsh, Thomas - 2023

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Are agro-clusters pro-poor? : evidence from Ethiopia

Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul <Jr.>; Dureti, Guyo Godana - In: Journal of agricultural economics : JAE 74 (2023) 1, pp. 100-115

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The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs : Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries

Gaduh, Arya; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A. - 2023

disutility from corruption,’ i.e., the trade-between more generous social assistance and losses due to corruption and fraud …

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Targeted Social Assistance Programs for the Poor and Local Economies : The Case of Conditional Cash Transfer in Indonesia

Falentina, Anna; Resosudarmo, Budy P. - 2023

Targeted social assistance programs for the poor have been implemented globally to alleviate poverty. However, little … is known whether these social assistance programs induce local economic development, an important issue for many … effects of the key Indonesian targeted social assistance program, the conditional cash transfer for poor households, on the …

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Changes to Australian income support settings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ferlitsch, Paul - 2023

This paper summarises the major changes made to unemployment, student and parenting transfer payments over 2020 and early 2021 in Australia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Major COVID-19 policy responses external to the transfer payment system are also summarised where these policies had a...

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Increasing Inequality and Voting for Basic Income : Could Gender Inequality Worsen?

Day, Creina - 2023

This paper examines the link between political support for basic income funded by linear income taxation and income inequality by household and gender. We develop a model with an increasingly right-skewed distribution of skill across households and a gender wage gap within households. Household...

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The Global Importance of Universal Basic Income (UBI) Manifestation

Tereshchenko, Sofia - 2023

Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a policy proposal that has gained increasing attention in recent years as a potential solution to address the economic, social and political challenges of our time. The idea behind UBI is to provide every citizen with a regular cash payment, unconditionally and...

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Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation : evidence from the United Kingdom's age of austerity

Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno; Metzger, Laura - 2023

This paper studies the effect of austerity on forms of political participation-including voting, appealing for reform, and peaceful protesting-and the role of preferences for redistribution in shaping the relationship between individual exposure to austerity and political participation. The...

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