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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems
Kraus, Margit - 2000
This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513025
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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru....
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
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Alleviating unemployment traps in Finland: Can the efficiency-equity trade-off be avoided?
Honkanen, Pertti; Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2007
Using a new comprehensive tax-benefit model, JUTTA, this paper examines how labour supply incentives – both to participate in the labour force (the “extensive” margin) and to supply extra hours of work (the “incentive” margin) – have changed in Finland in 1995-2007. The results...
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Take-up of joint and individual liability loans: an analysis with laboratory experiments
Baulia, Susmita - 2017
This paper reports a study on decision-making by borrowers regarding take-up of different loan types in a laboratory microfinance experiment setting. I hypothesize that when borrowers are offered a flexible choice of different loan types (here, individual liability (IL) and joint liability...
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Complexity and benefit take-up: Empirical evidence from the Finnish homecare allowance
Blumkin, Tomer; Kosonen, Tuomas; Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2018
We analyse to what extent the complexity of benefit rules affects take-up in a setting where the effects of complexity can be separated from other potential causes of non-take-up. The benefit we study is extensively used by individuals from all socioeconomic groups, namely the municipal...
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Cash incentives to mothers or to community health workers - what contributes better to the health of the mother and the newborn? Evidence from India
Baulia, Susmita - 2020
This paper investigates the role of demand-side incentives to mothers and supply-side incentives to community health workers (ASHAs) in improving maternal and child healthcare. These conditional cash benefits were part of a nationwide health intervention Janani Suraksha Yojana, introduced in...
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Wage subsidies, work incentives, and the reform of the Austrian welfare system
Steiner, Viktor; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2010
as well as increasing employment rates of recipients of social assistance. On the basis of a behavioral microsimulation … supply due to the generous allowances for marginal employment under the current and the planned regulations of unemployment … assistance. As an alternative, we analyze a reform proposal which reduces financial incentives for marginal employment not …
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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008
Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010
Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance...
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