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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 … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance transfers. The income flows to the State comprise direct taxes … pensions - are very concentrated and regressive. Factors related to the private sector are still concentrated, but progressive …
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Comparing income transfer systems : is Australia the poor relation?
Mitchell, Deborah - 1990
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Distributive impacts of social security financing in Brazil
Soares, Sergei; Bloch, Carolina - 2019
This paper seeks to estimate the distributive impact of the taxes and other fiscal contributions that finance social security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing, we compute a measure of incidence that aggregates...
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Social security and the failure of annuity markets
Townley, Peter; Boadway, Robin - 1986
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Mandated sick pay : coverage, utilization, and welfare effects
Maclean, Catherine; Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...
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Did conditional cash transfers in the Productive Safety Net Program empower women in Tigray, north-east Ethiopia?
Desalegne Gelagay, Megos; Lecoutere, Els - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid - 2019
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The internationalisation of public welfare policy
Banks, James; Disney, Richard; Duncan, Alan S.; Van … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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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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