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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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Land Reforms and Economic Development
Gersbach, Hans; Siemers, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
redistributions enables the beneficiaries to educate their children and thus to escape from poverty and to overcome child labour. We … agriculture-based state of poverty to a human capital-based developed economy. …
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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 Impact Of Active Labour Market Policies And Benefit Entitlement Rules On The Duration Of Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C van; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We evaluate the effect of active labour market programs on the duration of unemployment in a reward or punish system. In Switzerland, unemployment benefits are conditional upon program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. In the evaluation we allow for selectivity affecting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504444
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Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?
Berg, Erlend; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Manjula, R; Rajasekhar, D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance in the dissemination of information. We analyse theoretically as well as empirically the effect of incentive pay when agents have pro-social objectives, but also preferences over dealing with one social group relative to...
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Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy: the Mahallas in Uzbekistan
Coudouel, Aline; Marnie, Sheila; Micklewright, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Falling output and living standards have pushed countries in transition from the socialist system to re-consider how best to target public resources on those in need. The paper investigates the workings of a new social assistance benefit in Uzbekistan, the largest of the former Soviet Central...
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Insecurity and Welfare
Fafchamps, Marcel; Minten, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Using original survey data, we examine how insecurity affects welfare. Correcting for unobserved heterogeneity and possible endogeneity, we find an effect of insecurity on incomes, school enrolment, health status, and infant mortality. Results are robust to the inclusion of various shocks...
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Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana; Lopez, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123901
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Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia
Richter, Kaspar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124403
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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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