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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model … that provides improved incentives to work full-time has negligible effects on overall labor supply. With equal welfare … weights, aggregate welfare gains are realizable under all three reforms. …

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Wage subsidies, work incentives, and the reform of the Austrian welfare system

Steiner, Viktor; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2010

We analyze the labor supply and income effects of a needs-based minimum benefit system ("Bedarfsorientierte Mindestsicherung") to be introduced in Austria by the end of this/beginning of next year. The aim of this reform is to reduce poverty as well as increasing employment rates of recipients...

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Men too : the effects of welfare payment time limits on male labor market outcomes

Lichtman-Sadot, Shirlee - 2023

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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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The long-run effects of Conditional Cash Transfers : the case of Bolsa Familia in Brazil

Laguinge, Luis; Gasparini, Leonardo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2025

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become a key antipoverty policy in Latin America in the last 25 years. The ultimate goal of this kind of programs is to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty through the promotion of human capital accumulation of children in vulnerable...

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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences : prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021

The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...

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Mindestlöhne, Lohnsubventionen und Einkommenssicherung im Wohlfahrtsstaat : Verteilungswirkungen von Reformalternativen für Deutschland

Steiner, Viktor - 2010

Staatliche Instrumente zur Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich durch "Kombilohn-Modelle" existieren auch in Deutschland schon seit längerem und wurden im Zuge der jüngsten Arbeitsmarktreformen ausgeweitet. Aktuelle Reformvorschläge für Deutschland zielen zum einen auf die...

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