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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

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Group lending or individual lending? : evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; … - 2014

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...

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Minimum wages and poverty

Addison, John T. - 1998

employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …

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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance

Hölsch, Katja - 2003

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Implications of climate policy on energy poverty

Belaîd, Fateh; Hejazi, Mohamad; Kamboj, Puneet; … - 2023

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When Distrust Goes Viral : Causal Effects of COVID-19 on European Political Attitudes

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea FM; … - 2021

To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...

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COVID-19 Fatalities and Internal Conflict : Does Government Economic Support Matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2021

In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...

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Mimicking the opposition : Bismarck's welfare state and the rise of the socialists

Kersting, Felix - 2023

This paper examines the consequences of a government mimicking the policy of its competitor by studying the introduction of the welfare state in 19th century Germany. The reform conducted by the conservative government targeted blue-collar workers and aimed to reduce the success of the socialist...

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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...

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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

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