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The domestic welfare loss of Syrian Civil War : an equivalent income approach
Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751514
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Take-up and labour supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits
Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022
In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We develop a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013327268
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Should I Stay or Must I Go? Temporary Protection and Refugee Outcomes
Kilström, Matilda; Larsen, Birthe; Olme, Elisabet - 2018
We study a Danish reform in 2002 that lowered the ex ante probability of refugees receiving permanent residency by prolonging the time period before they were eligible to apply for permanent residency. Assignment to the new rules was completely determined by the date of the asylum application...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142386
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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status : evidence from policy experiments
Fasani, Francesco - 2014
Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472833
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Citizenship and the economic assimilation of Canadian immigrants
Zanoni López, Wladimir; He, Ailin - 2021
In this paper, we examine whether acquiring citizenship improves the economic assimilation of Canadian migrants. We took advantage of a natural experiment made possible through changes in the Canadian Citizenship Act of 2014, which extended the physical presence requirement for citizenship from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586727
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Immigrant crime and legal status : evidence from repeated amnesty programs
Fasani, Francesco - 2018
Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by exploiting cross-sectional and time variation in the number of immigrants legalized generated by the enactment of repeated amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We address the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904536
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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686131
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Macro crises and targeting transfers to the poor
Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864245
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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 … withdrawal of Income Support for single mothers whose youngest child turns 16. At this cut-off age, barely ineligible mothers … pronounced labour supply disincentives of the income support policy. -- Single mothers ; Income Support ; Labour supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933915
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Disability benefits : a substitute for income support for single mothers with no qualifications in the UK
Soobedar, Zeenat - 2009
This paper examines the impact of the age-eligibility rule establishing automatic withdrawal of Income Support for … no qualifications in the UK. Using the age discontinuity in Income Support program assignment, the study reveals that …, consistent with a theoretical model of benefits choice. More than a quarter of single mothers who were initially on Income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933918