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Covering the Uninsured in the U.S
Gruber, Jonathan - 2008
One of the major social policy issues facing the U.S. in the first decade of the 21st century is the large number of Americans lacking health insurance. This article surveys the major economic issues around covering the uninsured. I review the facts on insurance coverage and the nature of the...
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Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System : Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data
Finlay, Keith; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Street, Brittany - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or co-resident adults is both a marker of …) observe non-incarceration events, (2) follow children throughout their childhood, and (3) measure adult non-biological parent …: prison - 9% of children born between 1999-2005, felony conviction - 18%, and any criminal charge - 39%. Charge exposure rates …
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Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States
Bitler, Marianne - 2016
In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … we examine how and to what extent the safety net is providing protection to at-risk children. We find compelling evidence …
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Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States : Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data
Abowd, John M. - 2017
Using earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper analyzes the role of the employer in explaining the rise in earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data used to study earnings inequality. We show that...
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The Chronic Disease Index : Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle
Danesh, Kaveh; Kolstad, Jonathan; Parker, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the lifecycle. Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we develop an index of chronic disease burden based on the projected contribution to old-age mortality. Chronic...
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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2007
The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has reduced the equilibrium price of labor in western Europe and elsewhere. However, the actual price of labor hardly reacts, because the welfare state's minimum replacement incomes are...
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Public Economics and Inequality : Uncovering Our Social Nature
Saez, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper argues that the social nature of humans, absent from the standard economic model, is crucial to understand our large modern social states and why concerns about inequality are so pervasive. A social solution arises when a situation is resolved at the group level (rather than the...
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Migration and the Welfare State : A Dynamic Political-Economy Theory
Razin, Assaf - 2009
We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three groups of voters: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The welfare-state is modeled by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463052
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Migration and the welfare state : Dynamic Political-Economy Theory
Razin, Assaf - 2009
We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state, featuring three groups of voters: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The welfare-state is modeled by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner to capture the essence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463863
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Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World : The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary
Gruber, Jonathan - 2009
This is the introduction and summary to the fourth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social...
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