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Immigration to the land of redistribution

Boeri, Tito - 2009

Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by … welfare access by migrants or further tighten migration policies. Are there politically feasible alternatives to these two … perceptions about migrants in Europe. Based on a simple model of the perceived fiscal effects of migration and on a largely …

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Mandatory volunteer work as fair reciprocity for unemployment and social benefits?

Veldboer, Lex; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015

Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...

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Social protection beyond the bottom billion

Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2014

Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...

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Does the rise of China lead to the fall of European welfare states?

Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2021

Have recent trends in globalization changed the positive link between trade openness and social insurance? The consensus view - that voters want better social insurance against income loss the more open the economy - is seemingly contested by the rise of populism and the China shock. We present...

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Income support policies for the working poor

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2017

This paper asks what governments in the EU Member States and some US states are doing to support workers on low wages. Using model family simulations, we assess the policy measures currently in place to guarantee an adequate disposable income to working families, taking into account minimum...

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Sliding into safety net participation : a unified analysis across multiple programs

Wu, Derek; Zhang, Jonathan - 2023

on SNAP, Medicaid, and Unemployment Insurance, the patterns generalize to nine major programs. First, market incomes …

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Less welfare or fewer foreigners? : immigrant inflows and public opinion towards redistribution and migration policy

Murard, Elie - 2017

welfare and put restrictions on migration. When migrants are mostly low-skilled (high-skilled), European citizens typically …

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Social assistance in five countries in north-western Europe

Hansen, Hans; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2015

In this paper, we calculate the disposable incomes in 2012 of three selected family types receiving social assistance in five countries in north-western Europe. We also calculate the net replacement rates for families receiving social assistance, calculated on the basis of the disposable incomes...

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Unintended consequences of welfare cuts on children and adolescents

Dustmann, Christian; Landersø, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2024

This paper studies the effects of a large welfare benefit reduction on the children in the affected families. The welfare cut targeted adult refugees who received residency in Denmark, and it reduced their disposable income by 30 percent on average over the first five years. We show that...

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Pathways of disadvantage : unpacking the intergenerational correlation in welfare

Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2020

Our goal is to investigate the pathways that link welfare receipt across generations. We undertake a mediation analysis in which we not only calculate the intergenerational correlation in welfare, but also quantify the portion of that correlation that operates through key mechanisms. Our data...

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