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What do poor women want? Public employment or cash transfers? Lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
profound social transformative effects. In particular, they can help address enduring economic problems such as poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286510
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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy
Brugiavini, Agar - 2009
This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273928
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations
Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - 2007
enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321560
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Welfare reform in the UK: 1997 - 2007
Brewer, Mike - 2008
child poverty has led the Government to increase substantially income available to non-working families with children. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273973
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The US earned income tax credit, its effects, and possible reforms
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2008
of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273965
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Labour supply disincentives of income support: An analysis of single mothers with no qualifications in the UK
Soobedar, Zeenat - 2009
This paper examines the labour supply disincentives of the Income Support system among single mothers with no qualifications in the UK. It uses a regression discontinuity approach that exploits the age-eligibility rule establishing automatic withdrawal of Income Support for single mothers whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280773
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Robust estimates of changes in poverty and inequality in post-independence Namibia
Levine, Sebastian; Roberts, Benjamin - 2012
high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …
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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries
Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009
economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293303
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Employment outcomes and policies in Sweden during recent decades
Forslund, Anders - 2019
The Swedish employment rate is high in an international comparison and has been rising during recent decades. This pattern is especially pronounced among the elderly and women and reflects labour supply behaviour in these groups. The policy survey in this report suggests that the main drivers of...
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