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A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany

Krueger, Alan B. - 1996

Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the … determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new data set on the number and nature of such crimes at the county level … is taken into account. The relative number of foreigners in a country has no relationship with the incidence of ethnic …

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Married to Intolerance : Attitudes towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006

Voigtländer, Nico - 2013

attitudes persisted in Germany during the last century. We find strong evidence for the persistence of tolerant attitudes …

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Children and the US Social Safety Net : Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children

Aizer, Anna; Hoynes, Hilary W.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Economic research on the safety net has evolved significantly over time, moving away from a near exclusive focus on the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings, marriage and fertility to include examination of the potential positive benefits of such programs...

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Safety Nets and Social Welfare Expenditures in World Economic History

Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

eventually insurance companies offered insurance against lost earnings from sickness, injury, death, and old age. Germany led the …

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A Patchwork Safety Net : A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Fishback, Price V. - 2010

Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...

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Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries : Market distortions or Efficient Institutions?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2009

This essay reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes in developing countries. It finds that: 1) Labor institutions vary greatly among developing countries but less than they...

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The Supplemental Security Income Program and Incentives to Take Up Social Security Early Retirement : Empirical Evidence from Matched SIPP and Social

Powers, Elizabeth - 2001

Features of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and the social security retirement system may interact in a manner that creates incentives for prospective SSI recipients to take social security early retirement (SSER). This paper takes a first close look at this issue. The work...

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Safety Net Investments in Children

Hoynes, Hilary W. - 2018

In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-safety net programs--including Medicaid, EITC, CTC, SNAP, and AFDC/TANF--and how that's changed over time. We find that virtually all gains in spending on the social safety net for children since 1990 have gone...

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The Poverty Reduction of Social Security and Means-Tested Transfers

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2018

Many studies examine the anti-poverty effects of social insurance and means-tested transfers, relying solely on survey data with substantial errors. We improve on past work by linking administrative data from Social Security and five large means-tested transfers (SSI, SNAP, Public Assistance,...

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Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox

Ikegami, Munenobu - 2016

Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public expenditure? To explore this question, this paper...

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