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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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How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the antipoverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...

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Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges

Immervoll, Herwig - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at...

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No Claim, No Pain: Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance Using Register Data

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...

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In-Work Benefits for Married Couples: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy

De Luca, Giuseppe; Rossetti, Claudio; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates labor supply and redistributive effects of in-work benefits for Italian married couples using a tax-benefit microsimulation model and a multi-sectoral discrete choice model of labor supply. We consider two in-work benefit schemes following the key principles of the Earned...

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Child Poverty in English-Speaking Countries

Micklewright, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted...

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Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty

Bacarreza, Canavire; Javier, Gustavo; Hanauer, Merlin M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …

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Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5 … estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a … afforded by increases in two large social assistance benefits, the overall impact of higher food prices in Brazil was U …

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Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Income Distribution: A Decomposition Approach

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax-benefit structure (rules, rates, etc.),...

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The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies under New Labour: A Shapley Decomposition

Bargain, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution of market income....

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