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Poverty and Material Deprivation among the Self-Employed in Europe: An Exploration of a Relatively Uncharted Landscape
Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive - 2017
In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in this context. With about 15 percent of European workers in self-employment this group can no longer be ignored, especially since self-employment is on the rise in many...
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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants
Autor, David; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen; … - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer … concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481679
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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants
Autor, David; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer … concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143943
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The dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2009
We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the SA entry rate, rather than by the SA exit rate (which actually declined too). We examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269495
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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the SA entry rate, rather than by the SA exit rate (which actually declined too). We examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565214
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Social support shopping: Evidence from a regression discontinuity in disability insurance reform
Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne C.; Luttmer, Erzo F. P. - 2010
social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to … estimate the causal effect of exit from disability insurance (DI) on participation in other social assistance programs. We find … form of social assistance two years after the implementation of the reform. As a result, for each Euro saved in DI benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278327
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - 2014
the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby … stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398285
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Social Support Shopping: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne C.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to … estimate the causal effect of exit from disability insurance (DI) on participation in other social assistance programs. We find … benefits, the government has to spend an extra 60 cents in other social assistance programs. This crowd-out rate grows from 60 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805628
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby … stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891177
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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
of publically provided disability benefits has fluctuated over time and discuss how policy choices played a role. Based … disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307390