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Smarter Through Social Protection? Evaluating the Impact of Ethiopia's Safety-Net on Child Cognitive Abilities
Favara, Marta - 2017
We provide new estimates of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia on child cognitive achievement in the medium term. The programme is the second largest in Africa, and has been rolled out to almost 10 million beneficiaries since 2005. We exploit four rounds...
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The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements Across Socio-Economic Groups
Basso, Gaetano - 2011
and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118534
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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Palacios, Robert J. - 2020
Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833862
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Tackling Social Exclusion : Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2014
find strong and lasting impacts of the program on the take up of subsidies and employment services. These impacts are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052711
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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries
Marx, Ive - 2014
implications for strategies aimed at combining economic growth and employment with making serious inroads into poverty. We conclude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054579
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Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356977
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Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation : One-Company Towns in Russia
Commander, Simon John - 2011
-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality …The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one … the dominance of natural resources in the Russian economy and employment concentration is closely linked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119286
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Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform
Duncan, Denvil - 2009
We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158512
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The Effect of Doubling the Minimum Wage on Employment : Evidence from Russia
Muravyev, Alexander - 2016
We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001884
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Polarization or Upgrading? Evolution of Employment in Transitionary Russia
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2014
This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039608