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The policy relevance of absolute and relative poverty headcounts: What's in a number?
Notten, Geranda; de Neubourg, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and …
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Poverty in Europe and the USA: Exchanging official measurement methods
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them … Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) for the USA, we compare poverty trends in the USA and EU in relative and absolute terms on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790223
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Was erklärt hohe Arbeitseinkommen der Selbständigen? Eine Mikroanalyse mit Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels
Hirschel, Dierk; Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Die Legitimität von Ungleichheit in der Einkommensverteilung basiert in Marktökonomien auf den Annahmen einer Dominanz individueller Leistungskomponenten für die Einkommenshöhe und der unterstellten Existenz von Chancengleichheit. Die Überprüfung der empirischen Relevanz dieser Annahmen...
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258636
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Equity in social policy, a human rights and results based approach A welfare state comparison: the case of disability
van geystelen, judit; rot, poi; pascal, etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The reinforcement of equity and the inclusion of vulnerable population groups in social welfare systems development remains prominent in both, local and global policy arena. This paper assesses the hypothesis that certain welfare regimes produce more equitable social welfare outcomes than...
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Politica Social
Ortiz, Isabel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This United Nations Policy Note on Social Policy provides practical guidance on how to operationalize alternative equitable and employment-generating social policies in National Development Strategies. This Policy Note has been developed in cooperation with UN agencies, and has been officially...
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Devolution as a means to adequate social safety nets?
Van Mechelen, Natascha; De Maesschalck, Veerle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Decentralisation is invariably among the recommendations that international organisations such as the World Bank make for an enhancement of social provisions, and particularly a better targeting of social assistance regimes, in Eastern and Central Europe. However, theoretical literature as wel...
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Social security administration in India- study of provident funds and pension scheme
Rao, Madhava P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Social Security is becoming a distinct part of social policy of India and the time has come to give a serious thought to ever increasing Social Security needs of the population. There are diversified views on extension of Social Security coverage. Some say it should be limited to only working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836342
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept...
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Workfare – The Reinvention of the Social
Herrmann, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The presentation aims on refocusing the mainstream debate, starting from looking at work as the central reference rather than seeing the constituting problem of workfare as one of social policy/social security. Of course, at the end the objective is a clearer understanding of how measures aiming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837139