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Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated

Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper examines whether differences in welfare regimes shape the incentives to work and get educated. Using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and education. First, people- and household-based...

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The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India

Besley, Timothy J.; Burgess, Robin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The determinants of government responsiveness to its citizens is a key issue in political economy. Here we develop a model based on the solution of political agency problems. Having a more informed and politically active electorate strengthens incentives for governments to be responsive. This...

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J G; Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …

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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi …-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find that employment substantially increases (mental) health. The positive effects are …

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Food and Cash Transfers: Evidence from Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Battistin, Erich; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia. After controlling for the endogeneity of total expenditure and for the (unobserved) variability of prices across villages, the best fit is provided by a log-linear specification....

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How have Europeans Grown so Tall?

Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in the average health of populations. The literature associates stature with a variety of socioeconomic variables, and much of the focus is on the nineteenth century and on the last 50 years. In this paper I present and...

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A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper develops a theory of employment guarantees when labor markets are imperfect and when the credibility of … specified criteria is guaranteed public employment at a given wage if they want it. Thus, the two factors that define the … function. If the labour market is perfectly competitive, then the introduction of an employment guarantee scheme is bound to …

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Immigrant Assimilation And Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into Or Out Of Welfare?

Hansen, Jörgen; Löfström, Magnus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

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...

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The Impact of Divorce on School Performance: Evidence from France, 1968-2002

Piketty, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

For given observable parental characteristics, children with divorced or separated parents tend to perform less well at school than children living with their two parents. This result has been used to argue that softening divorce legislation might be bad for children. This might, however, just...

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A Positive Theory of Social Security

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Social Security programmes around the world link public pensions to retirement: people do not lose their pensions if they make a million dollars a year in the stock market, but they do confront marginal tax rates of up to 100% if they choose to work. After arguing that most existing theories...

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