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Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil : an analysis of BPC : continuous cash benefit programme
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Diniz, Déborah; … - 2015
The paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BPC, which stands for Benefício de Prestação Continuada in Portuguese), an unconditional cash transfer to the elderly or to extremely poor individuals with disabilities. The information used in the assessment stems from...
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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 effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina
Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022
downgraded employment, and of children to drop-out from education. While effects are stronger among vulnerable households …
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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom
Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - 2014
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502978
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503086
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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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