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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552949
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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 … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233815
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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
, social safety nets in Europe remain far below widely accepted poverty thresholds, including the EU's own official measure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416941
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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
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 poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822097
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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
, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal … them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703070
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Unequal Access to Higher Education in the Czech Republic: The Role of Spatial Distribution of Universities
Franta, Michal; Guzi, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by the absence/presence of a local university. Because the entrance to a university is a sequential process in the Czech Republic we model both a student's decision to apply to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646288
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Inclusive Growth: What Future for the European Social Model?
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This essay starts, after a short introduction on the importance and dimensions of “inclusive growth”, with a brief empirical sketch on to what extent Europe has already succeeded with respect to this ambitious goal. The result is quite sobering and gives rise to the question: why is it so?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884390
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Social Policies for a Recovery
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325413
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703636
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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
The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to reforms. This has been true about a decade ago. But both the institutional set-up and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012887