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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems

Kraus, Margit - 2000

This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...

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European schemes of social assistance: an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts

Kraus, Margit; Hölsch, Katja - 2002

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...

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Poverty Alleviation and the Degree of Centralisation in European Schemes of Social Assistance

Kraus, Margit; Hölsch, Katja - 2003

In this paper, the relationship between the degree of centralisation and the distributive outcomes in European schemes of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes except for Luxembourg according to features related to...

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Which is the Right Dose of EU Cohesion Policy for Economic Growth?

Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 2008

The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European regions mainly relies on functional form assumptions. However, it is ex ante not clear which functional form is appropriate with regard to the relationship between structural funds...

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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2000

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …

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