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Public employment and women: the impact of Argentina's Jefes Program on female heads of poor households
Tcherneva, Pavlina R.; Wray, L. Randall - 2007
In 2002, Argentina implemented a large-scale public employment program to deal with the latest economic crisis and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266603
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Can public policy increase paternity acknowledgement? Evidence from earnings-related parental leave
Raute, Anna; Weber, Andrea; Zudenkova, Galina - 2022
A child's family structure is a fundamental determinant of future well-being, making it essential to understand how public policies affect the involvement of fathers. In this paper, we exploit a reform of the German parental leave system which increased mother's income and reduced legal father's...
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Disability insurance screening and worker outcomes
Ahammer, Alexander; Packham, Analisa - 2023
We estimate the returns to more targeted disability insurance (DI) programs in terms of labor force participation, program spillovers, and worker health. To do so, we analyze workers after an acute workplace injury that experience differential levels of application screening. We find that when...
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013: Challenges, buffer stocking and the way forward
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2015
The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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Indian food and welfare schemes: Scope for digitization towards cash transfers
Saini, Shweta; Sharma, Sameedh; Gulati, Ashok; Hussain, … - 2017
The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performance of the existing Public Distribution System (PDS), and current state of banking infrastructure,...
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What do poor women want? Public employment or cash transfers? Lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often …, and that a policy such as the JG or the ELR cannot only guarantees full employment and macroeconomic stabilization, but it … reproduce gender disparities. These transformative features of public employment policies are elucidated by turning to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286510
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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures - Quasi-experimental Evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts - the number of individuals of the same ethnicity - and the quality of contacts - welfare use among members of the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321531
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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures: Quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of the same ethnicity – and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317900
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Race, power, and the subprime/forceclosure crisis: A mesoanalysis
Dymski, Gary A.; Hernandez, Jesus; Mohanty, Lisa - 2011
latter see it as rooted in the US legacy of racial/ethnic inequality, and especially in racial residential segregation …
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