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program on village welfare and structural transformation adopting a (fuzzy) regression discontinuity design, which exploits … village eligibility for identification. Welfare increased in rural as opposed to urban villages in Java, Sumatra and Bali and …. We find no evidence that the program affected structural transformation or welfare in Kalimantan, Sulawesi or Papua …
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We identify the individual resources that predicted psychological resilience during the COVID-19 lockdown. Using UK …
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In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …, our findings indicate that the impact of welfare rules crucially hinges on the biological relationship of the male partner …
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, as well as eligibility-rules for a number of welfare programs, such as social assistance, housing allowance etc. The … income for various combinations of hours of work and welfare. It can be used for calculating accurate (net) household incomes … conditional on labour supply while income tax rules and the various welfare benefit-levels are complicated functions of earned and …
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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …
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about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … hostility to immigration from ethnically distinct populations. Furthermore, there is evidence that welfare and labour market …
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We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the labor market in which workers? location in an agglomeration depends on commuting costs, the endogenous price of land and the value of job search and employment. We first show that...
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This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting...
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This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's …. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize social …
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recently and thus cannot explain the rising welfare receipt. Following theoretical predictions, the probability that a rational …
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