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Mind the gap : bridging the perception of crime rates with information
Ardanaz, Martin; Corbacho, Ana; Ruiz-Vega, Mauricio - 2014
objective crime trends could have on such perceptions. The results show that information improves perceptions of safety and …Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime … events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk that citizen may have inaccurate perceptions of …
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Housing Markets in Uruguay: Determinants of Housing Demand and its Interaction with Public Policies
Garabato, Natalia; Ramada-Sarasola, Magdalena - 2011
This paper analyzes the determinants of housing demand for Uruguay and the extent to which housing policies have an impact on their target population. The paper first analyzes the determinants of housing demand, following an approach based on Rosen's (1974) two-step procedure consisting of...
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Low-Income Housing Finance in Colombia
Arbelaez, Maria Angelica; Camacho, Carolina; Fajardo, … - 2011
This paper explores the role played by policy instruments in access to housing finance by low-income households. It also analyzes the impact of housing credit and subsidies on both the quality of life and the quality of dwelling of the beneficiaries. Using the Quality of Life Surveys conducted...
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Hanging in, but only just: Part-time employment and in-work poverty throughout the crisis
Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive; Nolan, Brian - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-19
The crisis has deepened pre-existing concerns regarding low-wage and non-standard employment. Countries where unemployment increased most strongly during the crisis period also saw part-time employment increasing, particularly involuntary part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a...
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Short Moves and Long Stays: Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also...
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Modelling universal basic income using UKMOD
De Henau, Jérôme; Himmelweit, Susan; Reis, Sara - 2021
This paper focuses on the possibilities and functionalities offered by the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the UK - UKMOD to simulate and analyse the distributional impact of three examples of Basic Income schemes. We show how to build in functionalities to ensure fiscal neutrality and we...
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Making It Home? Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of an Intensive Support Program for the Chronically Homeless on Housing, Employment and Health
Kühnle, Daniel; Johnson, Guy; Tseng, Yi-Ping - 2022
Interventions that combine unconditional permanent housing with support services, known as Housing First approaches, generally improve housing outcomes for people who have experienced chronic homelessness. However, little is known about their long-run outcomes or the consequences of ending such...
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Housing Subsidies and Work Incentives
Shroder, Mark D. - 2010
Low-income housing assistance is part of the welfare state of all developed countries. The rest of the welfare state may cause work disincentives. In theory, housing assistance may also do so, but those disincentives may be blunted by its in-kind character and the way it is rationed. Rationing...
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Inquiry into Funding and Delivery of Programs to Reduce Homelessness
Flatau, Paul - 2017
This research investigated the funding and delivery of programs to reduce homelessness in Australia, providing the first comprehensive examination of the funding of Specialist Homelessness Services and other services assisting those experiencing homelessness. It found current levels of funding...
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Housing, the ‘Great Income Tax Experiment’, and the Intergenerational Consequences of the Lease
Coleman, Andrew - 2017
This paper provides an analysis of how the New Zealand tax system may be affecting residential property markets. Like most OECD countries, New Zealand does not tax the imputed rent or capital gains from owner-occupied housing. Unlike most OECD countries, since 1989 New Zealand has taxed income...
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