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Poverty and the Welfare State in Inter-war London

Bailey, Roy E; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In this paper we re-examine poverty among working class households in inter-war London using the newly computerized …–31. First, we examine how the use of different poverty lines affects the number of households found to be in poverty. We then … analyse the effects of the inter-war social security system in relieving poverty. Finally, we estimate what difference it …

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Seebohm Rowntree and the Post-War Poverty Puzzle

Bailey, Roy E; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

percentage of households in poverty. He attributed the bulk of this decline to government welfare reforms enacted during and … after the War. Some observers have been uneasy about these striking results, especially with the rediscovery of poverty in … the 1960s. In this paper we re-examine the surviving records from the 1950 survey, making the poverty line more consistent …

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The Cross-Sectional Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper explores the implications of the recent sharp rise in US wage inequality for welfare and the cross-sectional distributions of hours worked, consumption and earnings. From 1967 to 1996 cross-sectional dispersion of earnings increased more than wage dispersion, due to a rise in the...

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Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs

Pavoni, Nicola; Setty, Ofer; Violante, Giovanni L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Some existing welfare programs (“work-first”) require participants to work in exchange for benefits. Others (“job search-first”) emphasize private job-search and provide assistance in finding and retaining a durable employment. This paper studies the optimal design of welfare programs...

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Optimal Welfare-to-Work Programs

Pavoni, Nicola; Violante, Giovanni L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

A Welfare-to-Work (WTW) program is a mix of government expenditures on various labor market policies targeted to the unemployed (e.g., unemployment insurance, job search monitoring, social assistance, wage subsidies). This paper provides a dynamic principal-agent framework suitable for analyzing...

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