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The balance between private and public sectors in welfare activity in the UK has been documented by Burchardt (1997) and Smithies (2005) for three time periods; 1979/1980, 1995/1996 and 1999/2000. The existing evidence suggested that a welfare mix has previously been in existence but that the...
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The balance between private and public sectors in welfare activity in the UK has been documented by Burchardt (1997) and Smithies (2005) for three time periods; 1979/1980, 1995/1996 and 1999/2000. The existing evidence suggested that a welfare mix has previously been in existence but that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636819
This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-by-programme review of their...
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perspective; the distributional data in EU-SILC are necessary to measure income poverty. The progress, or lack of progress, in … reducing income poverty has to be seen in relation to what is happening to the level of real incomes. We begin with the EU …-SILC-based headline at-risk-of-poverty indicator, and then consider its relation to the level of household real income as presented in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213433
This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen's research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his work...
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This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective …
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Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the relationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality...
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During the period 1974-1999 the percentage of elderly living with their children in Greece reduced from 55 per cent to about 32 per cent. In this paper we examine determinants of the decrease in intergenerational co-residence among Greek elderly people and their adult children and its...
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-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …
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The review confirms that fuel poverty is a serious national problem and shows that it is set to rise rapidly … higher income people with typical costs. The review's central projection is that this "fuel poverty gap" - already three … nearly £600 a year higher on average than better-off households with typical costs. The report also argues that: Fuel poverty …
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