Government’s behavior is expected to be non-neutral in terms of impacts on both welfare and inequality. It is …

. This paper considers the impact of such programs on consumer demand and welfare and empirically tests whether enrollment in …

of the Welfare State. However, while these theories may be suited for explaining the development of public insurance or … theories, such as inequality-averse social welfare functions or fairness criteria. It is shown how both approaches can be … incorporation of individuals' altruistic feelings in social welfare functions. …

This paper analyses differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in … the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize …

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which …

. Immigrants are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives are and are more likely to stay on welfare and to …-refugee countries display a similar degree of ‘structural’ state dependence as natives. The high welfare participation rates among … refugee immigrants seem to be due to the existence of a ‘welfare trap’, while participation among natives and non …

increases. In order to assess welfare and, in particular, inequality effects involved in each episode, we built a general … endogenous cross-section distribution of income, wealth and welfare. …

Indonesia are due to differences in the marginal welfare gains (returns) associated with household mobile endowments or … authorities is related to the main determinants of the spatial disparities in welfare among districts. Differences in the returns … to household mobile characteristics are found to be the primary explanation of the welfare differences. The allocation of …