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gap, I identify homeless people in Germany as the least advantaged and assess how this group would be impacted by a basic … introducing a basic income would affect the homeless population in Germany in terms of income, self-respect, and power. While a … homelessness will only decrease insofar as the basic income policy helps people exit homelessness. Moreover, a basic income would …
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Little is known about the effectiveness of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria. Using individual and household level data, I analyse the performance of two social assistance and two means- tested child benefits. I find that the programmes reach a very small proportion of the households with...
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Little is known about the effectiveness of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria. Using individual and household level data, I analyse the performance of two social assistance and two means-tested child benefits. I find that the programmes reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009626137
Inspired by Fröhlich and Oppenheimer (1990), an experimental survey in the lab was designed to find out if preferences for three different redistribution schemes differ under a veil of ignorance. The three schemes are a stylized version of the status quo German welfare state (A), a control...
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The paper simulates the redistributive impact of three possible scenarios for the introduction of a basic income (BI, also sometimes called "citizens' income") in Quebec. The simulations are revenue neutral at the joint provincial-federal government level. The first scenario assumes that a set...
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This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...
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Over the past forty years the economic fortunes of Australian households have fallen into two fairly distinct periods. In the “disappointing decades” of the 1970s and 1980s, real wages stagnated, unemployment increased fourfold and male full-time employment as a proportion of the population...
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-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for Australia, Germany, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we find that … welfare states like Germany that are assumed to engage in a high level of redistribution actually achieve relatively less …
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(CNEF) for Australia, Germany, Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, we find that supposedly highly … redistributive welfare states like Germany provoke comparably less redistribution between individuals in the long-run than the United …
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This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefts with a basic income of equal size has minor employment effects at best. We examine an experiment in Finland in which 2,000 beneft recipients were randomized to receive a monthly basic income. The experiment lowered...
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