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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children : Evidence from Urban China
Mu, Ren - 2014
sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a quasi-experiment to analyze the intergenerational impact of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065312
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Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children : Evidence from Rural India
Pal, Sarmistha - 2021
The present paper argues that intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children are important determinants of any coresidency arrangement though generally overlooked in the existing literature. In this respect the paper distinguishes between exchange of both financial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316981
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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States Around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2020
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823316
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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Palacios, Robert J. - 2020
redistribution often benefits middle/high income workers more than low income workers 3) they do not provide continuous protection as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833862
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Immigrant Responses to Social Insurance Generosity
Bratsberg, Bernt - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920436
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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...
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Minimum Income Support Systems as Elements of Crisis Resilience in Europe
Eichhorst, Werner; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Marx, Paul; … - 2023
This paper studies the role of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection and active inclusion. The core focus lies on crisis resilience, i.e. the capacity of social policy arrangements to contain poverty and inequality and avoid exclusion before,...
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The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation : Evidence from China
Fu, Shihe - 2016
This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997455
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Internet Use and Fertility Behavior Among Reproductive-Age Women in China
Nie, Peng; Peng, Xu; Luo, Tianyuan - 2022
Using longitudinal data from the 2014â 2018 China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of internet use (IU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237037
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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...
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