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Beaudry, Paul - 2010

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …

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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

Bitler, Marianne P. - 2011

Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...

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The Expanding Social Safety Net

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2011

Inflation-adjusted spending on means-tested subsidies have increased sharply since 2007, and most of this growth was due to changes in eligibility rules, and increases in subsidies per eligible person, rather than increases in the number of people who would have been eligible under pre-recession...

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Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2011

This paper presents the results of a field experiment in which a sample of older workers was randomized between a treatment group that was given information about key Social Security provisions and a control group that was not. The experiment was designed to examine whether it is possible to...

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How Do the U.S and Canadian Social Safety Nets Compare for Women and Children?

Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2017

The past 25 years has seen substantial change in the social safety nets for families with children in the US and Canada. Both countries have moved away from cash welfare but the US has done so relying more exclusively on inwork benefits with work requirements. This paper examines this evolution...

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Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation

Shoven, John B. - 2010

Government policies that are based on age do not adjust to the fact that a given age is associated with a higher remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine four possible methods for adjusting the eligibility...

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The Social Safety Net in the Wake of Covid-19

Bitler, Marianne P. - 2020

included robust responses including expansions to unemployment insurance (expansions in eligibility and $600 per week …The COVID-19 crisis has led to spiking unemployment rates with disproportionate impacts on low-income families. School …

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Social Protection and Economic Development : Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?

Ravallion, Martin - 2018

though this is mainly due to social insurance; on average, social assistance adds only 1.5 cents per day to the floor …

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Social Security and the American Family

Boskin, Michael J.; Puffert, Douglas J. - 2022

This paper presents the results of a computer simulation of the expected present value of benefits, taxes, and transfers, rates of return, and marginal linkage of benefits and taxes for persons of different income levels and family status. A number of important issues associated with the "deal"...

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Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox

Ikegami, Munenobu - 2016

does a conventional cash transfer policy. We also explore the prospects for using subsidized index insurance as a way to … implement SWCTs and find that an insurance-based hybrid policy can result in lower total public expenditures than a conventional …

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