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Variation in the quality of regional child welfare services
Henningsen, Morten; Kornstad, Tom - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
While child welfare services of high quality are very important for many children, measuring quality is not a simple … task. This paper presents a method for estimating differences in the quality of local child welfare services. We identify … eliminate effects that cannot be attributed to child welfare services. Our findings may then be interpreted as mainly quality …
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Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Gupta, Bhanu; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data on funds sanctioned and election results from three...
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Die Beseitigung von Arbeitszeithürden als Beitrag zur Lösung des Fachkräftemangels
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Die Stellschraube Arbeitszeit ist der in der Fachdebatte am stärksten unterschätzte Ansatzpunkt, um den absehbaren Konsequenzen der demographischen Herausforderungen begegnen zu können. Würden alle Erwerbstätigen im statistischen Durchschnitt Vollzeit arbeiten, was in etwa der heutigen...
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Do Europe's Minimum Income Schemes Provide Adequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis and How, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...
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Making Work Pay for the Indebted: The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals
Koning, Pierre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that was targeted at a specific group of Dutch Social Assistance (SA) recipients with debt problems. With a large share of the income gains of work resumption were transferred to the creditors, these individuals experienced a strong a...
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Sind ARGEn wirklich besser? Anmerkungen zur Evaluation der Betreuungsorganisation im Bereich der Grundsicherung
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Mit der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II wurde auch die behördliche Zuständigkeit für die Grundsicherung einer grundlegenden Reorganisation unterzogen. Während in der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Kommunen in Form der sogenannten Arbeitsgemeinschaften eine Mischverwaltung aus Bundesagentur...
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Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program
Heflin, Colleen M.; Mueser, Peter R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Although many programs redistribute resources in the U.S., two program were central in providing a safety net for those facing hardship during the Great Recession: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which grew to 47.7 million people in January 2013 – or 15.1 percent of all...
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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter eligibility criteria and reduced generosity. Women subject to the more stringent rule experience greater rates of hospitalization and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual...
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Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program: Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
Zimmermann, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...
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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurcance applicants
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015
Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...
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