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The internationalisation of public welfare policy
Banks, James; Disney, Richard; Duncan, Alan; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
With increasing globalisation of knowledge, there are increased opportunities to 'learn' from the experience of policy interventions elsewhere. This paper presents evidence on the extent of international convergence in public policy, with particular focus on labour, welfare, savings and...
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Taxes, social subsidies, and the allocation of work time
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
We examine the allocation of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities across three sector groups, one that produces goods without home substitutes, and two others that have home substitutes but are treated differently by welfare policy. We attribute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126278
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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?
Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884607
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Long term care partnerships: are they 'fit for purpose'?
Bergquist, Savannah; Costa-Font, Joan; Swartz, Katherine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
The risk of high costs of long-term care services and supports (LTSS) is one of the largest uninsured risks for American families and a major challenge to the sustainability of Medicaid. To address the latter, the long-term care partnership (LTCP) program was an initiative designed to encourage...
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Employment outcomes in the welfare state
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
production in services with close substitutes at home. Scandinavian policies give incentives to move home production in social … five representative countries, United States, Britain, France, Italy and Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071076
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Employment outcomes in the welfare state
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
production in services with close substitutes at home. Scandinavian policies give incentives to move home production in social … five representative countries, United States, Britain, France, Italy and Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071508
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Welfare policy and the distribution of hours of work
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We examine the distribution of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities when sectors are divided into three groups: one that produces goods without home substitutes and two others that have home substitutes — health and social work, and all others....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071544
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Not all incentives wash out the warm glow: the case of blood donation revisited
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may … paper we examine how favouring different types of incentives are related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a … and attitudes towards incentives. Our results show those who have donated are less likely to favour monetary rewards for …
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Unemployment insurance and cultural transmission: theory and application to European unemployment
Michau, Jean-Baptiste - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper emphasizes the two-way causality between the provision of unemployment insurance and the cultural transmission of work ethic. Values affect the size of the moral-hazard problem and, hence, the policy to be implemented. Conversely, when parents rationally choose how much effort to...
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The part-time pay penalty
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo investigate what's behind this part-time pay penalty.
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