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This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal analysis in the European Union, EUROMOD, is used to...
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This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...
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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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Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden …
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-work poverty, and retirement and old-age pensions. After that we discuss social spending on other than cash transfers: the labour …
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This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...
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This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …
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This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment … over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical "natural rate of unemployment" (NRU … unemployment are due, instead, to very prolonged after-effects of persistent (transitory but long-lasting) shocks. We argue that (a …
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This study examines individuals’ unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals’ unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …
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