Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with … the literature on the effects of sanctions in social welfare systems and we present first results on the effects of … sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with … the literature on the effects of sanctions in social welfare systems and we present first results on the effects of … sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a … percent urban, higher food prices still led to a greater incidence and depth of poverty at the national level. …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a … percent urban, higher food prices still led to a greater incidence and depth of poverty at the national level. …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … with GDP per capita: poverty accounts for a much greater share of the welfare costs in poorer countries. Finally, the … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its …

welfare losses – combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years – depends both on the choice of poverty … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty … and compare two important components of those losses – increased mortality and higher poverty – using years of human life …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …