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of people who would have been eligible under pre-recession subsidy rules. The non-elderly parts of the safety net have …
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people who would have been eligible under pre-recession subsidy rules. In 2007, the non-elderly parts of the safety net paid …, the annual subsidy rate per person-year unemployed was up to $16,000. As a result, the average private returns to …
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The extent of social expenditures in the U.S. and the Nordic Countries is compared in the early 1900s and again in the early 2000s. The common view that America spends much less on social welfare than the Nordic countries does not survive closer inspection when we consider the differences in the...
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The econometric consensus on the effects of social spending confirms a puzzle we confront in the raw data: There is no clear net GDP cost of high tax-based social spending on GDP, despite a tradition of assuming that such costs are large. The paper offers five keys to this free lunch puzzle....
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of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …
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receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … families must travel from home in order to reach the nearest office that administers the subsidy application process. Using … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy …
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This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...
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paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …
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differential effects of UI in booms and recessions, this paper exploits the fact that, in Germany, potential UI benefit duration is …
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We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany …
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