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caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …
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This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low … welfare reforms are primarily spending more money on items related to employment but not items for children. Finally, a common …
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the US welfare state. One of its key goals was to move lone mothers, even those with young children, from welfare to work …. Early evidence suggests that, in concert with a strong economy, progress has been made - welfare caseloads have fallen … welfare reforms played an important role prior to 1996 and are playing an even more important role subsequent to 1996 as …
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explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies: childcare subsidies and family cash benefits. I distinguish between …
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at work are inconsistent. Pay levels are insufficient and, though benefits/tax credits help, they are complex and badly …
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We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo …
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We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo …
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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....
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The measurement of poverty as ‘consistent’ poverty offers a solution to one of the primary problems of poverty measurement within Social Policy of the last three decades. Often treated as if they were synonymous, ‘indirect’ measures of poverty, such as low income measures, and...
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This paper is about the determination and prediction of permanent income in household data. Standard static welfare … determination. Simultaneous estimation of the model allows us to compare how well different standard static welfare indicators … causal variables and in the standard static welfare indicators. The paper is closed by an application of the methodology to …
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