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Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009

This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...

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Understanding the Distributional Impacts of Increases in Fuel Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Paraguay

Canavire Bacarreza, Gustavo J.; de Ervin, Lyliana Gayoso; … - 2023

The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have … analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … more regressive in Paraguay. At the same time, the results of the simulations indicate small effects on income inequality. …

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Migration, risk and the intra-household allocation of labor in El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2008

We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic...

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Intra-household labor supply, migration, and subsistence constraints in a risky environment: Evidence from rural El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...

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Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and international emigration in this or any other region....

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Volunteering and the State

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Distributional Impact of Social Transfers in the European Union: Evidence from the ECHP

Heady, Christopher; Mitrakos, Theodore; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2001

Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...

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On the extent of re-entitlement effects in unemployment compensation

Ortega, Javier; Rioux, Laurence - 2007

A dynamic labor matching economy is presented, in which the unemployed are either entitled to unemployment insurance (UI) or unemployment assistance (UA), and the employees are either eligible for UI or UA upon future separations. Eligibility for UI requires a minimum duration of contributions...

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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic countries? Evidence from Finnish register data

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2007

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...

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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending

Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...

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