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Immervoll, Herwig; Llena-Nozal, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...

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Inclusive Growth: What Future for the European Social Model?

Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

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Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Countries Since 1990

Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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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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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A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spiess, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....

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Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries

Corak, Miles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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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Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Hemerijck, Anton; Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

shedding in the 1970s and 1980s to combat open unemployment. As this was associated with an increasing burden of non-wage labor …

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The Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union

Corak, Miles; Lietz, Christine; Sutherland, Holly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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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Differential Welfare State Impacts for Frontier Working Age Families

Burlacu, Irina S.; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

evaluate the impact of unemployment benefits and income taxation on these frontier workers' welfare in Luxembourg and Belgium …/2004 provisions on unemployment, taxation regimes and bi-lateral tax treaties. We find mixed results. First, while countries follow … in unemployment conditions and benefits favor high discrepancies in residents' incomes. Third, mobility creates high …

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