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Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022
We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … are now on disability benefits, up from 2% in 1992–93. This rise has been driven by claims for mental health and other …
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Effects of work requirements for food assistance eligibility on disability claiming
Stith, Sarah S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31
Between 2010 and 2017, 42 U.S. states added work requirements as a food assistance eligibility criterion for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs). Another U.S. public assistance program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), provides food assistance without a work requirement, along with...
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Poverty and material deprivation among the self-employed in Europe : an exploration of a relatively uncharted landscape
Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive - 2017
In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in this context. With about 15 percent of European workers in self-employment this group can no longer be ignored, especially since self-employment is on the rise in many...
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Does delay cause decay? : the effect of administrative decision time on the labor force participation and earnings of disability applicants
Autor, David H.; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer … concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in …
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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has and Should Reshape the American Safety Net
Hammond, Andrew; Jurow Kleiman, Ariel; Scheffler, Gabriel - 2021
) addressing how government, in the future, should build social welfare programs that are better suited to meet the needs of all …
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Judging Without a J.D
Greene, Sara Sternberg; Renberg, Kristen - 2022
One of the most basic assumptions of our legal system is that when two parties face off in court, the case will be adjudicated before a judge who is trained in the law. This Essay begins by showing that empirically, the assumption that most judges have legal training does not hold true for many...
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Germany's Healthcare System : Funding, Resource Allocation, Provider Payment, Efficiency, and Access
Michaeli, Daniel T.; Yagmur, Hasan; Michaeli, Thomas - 2022
Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes, and access. Whilst health provision and access are...
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Distribuição de renda nos anos 2010: uma década perdida para desigualdade e pobreza
Barbosa, Rogério J.; Souza, Pedro H. G. Ferreira de; … - 2020
2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While …
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Household responses to disability shocks : spousal labor supply, caregiving, and disability insurance
Lee, Siha - 2020
' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program …. First, I find that while spousal labor supply responses to husbands' disability are small, wives spend a sizable amount of … households that incorporates husbands' disability status, wives' time allocation choices, health state dependent utility, and the …
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Public Health Insurance Take-Up and Labor Supply : Evidence from State Expansions in Coverage to Childless Adults in the Early 2000s
DiNardi, Michael - 2019
This paper considers the effects of public health insurance expansions for low-income childless adults in the early 2000s in a causal framework, prior to passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Using the 1998 through 2007 March Current Population Surveys, my estimates suggest the expansions...
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