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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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Minimum income support systems as elements of crisis resilience in Europe
Eichhorst, Werner; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Marx, Paul; … - 2023
unemployment insurance, job retention and employment protection, as they play an additional and potentially prominent role in …
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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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Immigrant responses to social insurance generosity
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2018
Immigrants from low‐income source countries tend to be underrepresented in employment and overrepresented in social insurance programs. Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine how these gaps reflect systematic differences in the impacts of social insurance benefits on work...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664508
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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state
Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529276