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Social Protection in the Philippines: Current State and Challenges
Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C. - 2011
This paper reviews the current state of and challenges facing social protection in the Philippines. It describes the social protection institutions and the schemes that have been developed throughout the years. It also provides an assessment focusing on coverage, administration, and management....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421203
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Poverty and institutional regimes: A generalised budget approach in 11 countries
Vrooman, J.C. - 2009
The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …
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Social security driven tax wedge and its effects on employment and shadow employment
Góra, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinitsina, Irina; … - 2009
The paper discusses possible directions and magnitudes of the relationship between the social security driven tax wedge, employment and shadow employment in Russia and Ukraine. The first section presents a summary of the economic and institutional background for development of the current size...
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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families: What do we know now?
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-34
urban poverty. …
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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families: What do we know now?
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - 2012
in urban poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291309
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Simulating the economic impacts of living wage mandates using new public and administrative data: Evidence for New York City
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - 2012
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...
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Restructuring and social safety nets in Russia and Ukraine - social security influence on labor mobility: Possible opportunities and challenges
Góra, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr - 2009
The paper discusses the issue of labor force mobility in a broad sense, and analyses how changes in social security policy and the structure of the social safety net (SSN) affects different aspects of labor force mobility. The text is structured as follows: Introduction, then follows Chapter 2,...
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Social security and fighting poverty in Tunisia
Khemili, Hasna; Belloumi, Mounir - In: Economies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17
The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009815
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Needs and Targeting
Keen, Michael Michael - 1991
This paper shows that when - in the manner of the recent targeting literature - the resources available for poverty … relief are allocated across heterogeneous groups so as to minimize a 'well-behaved' index of aggregate poverty, the optimal … conditions for optimally-targeted benefits to be inversely related to needs are established under two polar forms of poverty …
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