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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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Inequality of Earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792213
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Consumption and Labour Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework
Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
over the period 1967-1996. We then use the estimated parameter values to decompose inequality in all variables of interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114147
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666675
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788967
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789144
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Social Europe: Dramatic Visions and Real Complexity
Boeri, Tito - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Many social policy reforms have been carried out in Europe in the last fifteen years. Most of these reforms are marginal. Often they are mutually inconsistent. Yet, something is changing in the European social policy landscape and not in the direction implied by the presence of a 'race to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136747
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Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programs: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Caeyers, Bet; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Despite increasingly large scale social protection programs in Africa, we have limited evidence on the local political economy of their allocation. We investigate community-based processes for food aid allocation and the role of political and social networks, using the case of Ethiopia in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083317
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Politically Sustainable Probabilistic Minority Targeting
De Donder, Philippe; Peluso, Eugenio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the minority targeted, when the probability to receive the transfer is decreasing and concave in income. We apply our framework to the French social housing program and obtain that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083515
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Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083541