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Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants : Does Starthelp Help You Start?
Rosholm, Michael - 2007
refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two … alternatively, their education is not recognized in Denmark. Hence, there may be no demand for their skills. The empirical question …;quasi-naturalquot; experiment, in which the rules for welfare benefits in Denmark changed rather dramatically. Refugee immigrants obtaining …
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The Effects of Active Labour Market Policies for Immigrants Receiving Social Assistance in Denmark
Heinesen, Eskil - 2011
-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126927
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Immigrant Welfare Receipt Across Europe
Barrett, Alan - 2011
The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129906
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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
de Janvry, Alain - 2010
This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134821
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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...
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Efficient Redistribution : Comparing Basic Income with Unemployment Benefits
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2010
We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple utility function, with both intensive and extensive margins, the unemployed are likely better off with pure BI than pure UB, regardless of labour supply elasticity and wage...
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Back to the Future : Decomposition Analysis of Distributive Policies Using Behavioural Simulations
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work incentives, it is also crucial to evaluate behavioural responses and the...
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The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty
Longford, Nicholas T. - 2010
We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this purpose is served in the countries that participated in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions in 2007. Motivated by the findings, we characterise a social...
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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2010
We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137517
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Wage Subsidies, Work Incentives, and the Reform of the Austrian Welfare System
Steiner, Viktor - 2010
We analyze the labor supply and income effects of a needs-based minimum benefit system ("Bedarfsorientierte Mindestsicherung") to be introduced in Austria by the end of this/beginning of next year. The aim of this reform is to reduce poverty as well as increasing employment rates of recipients...
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