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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty Through In-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara - 2021
(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315723
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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty : A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075953
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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011
-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853849
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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being
Hetschko, Clemens - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984507
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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries : A Preliminary Survey
Volkert, Juergen H. W.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316065
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Does Income Inequality Lead to Terrorism?
Krieger, Tim - 2016
We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 114 countries between 1985 and 2012. We provide evidence, robust to various methodological changes (e.g., different dependent variables, instrumental-variable approaches), that higher levels of income inequality are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994278
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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty through in-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara - CESifo - 2013
(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877897
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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness : Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?
Lessmann, Christian - 2014
donor countries should carefully consider how both anti-poverty instruments - foreign assistance and decentralization - work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069925
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Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2009
Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole, this paper focuses more specifically on how Social Security affects the poor. This question is important because a Social Security program that reduces overall inequality by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763992
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Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment
Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2021
We characterize optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. Average tax rates are increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316102