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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011
This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … to the poor within each population group (that is, poverty targeted transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331388
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Soziale Sicherung zwischen Markt und Staat
Schmähl, Winfried (contributor) - 2000
und betrieblichen Sozialpolitik. Dabei sind bisherige Erfahrungen wie auch Reformoptionen Gegenstand kritischer Analysen …, die anläßlich mehrerer Tagungen des Ausschusses für Sozialpolitik (im Verein für Socialpolitik) vorgelegt wurden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492786
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396722
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282645
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Unintended consequences of welfare reform: the case of divorced parents
Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2008
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274406
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Social assistance and minimum income protection in the EU: Vulnerability, adequacy, and convergence
Nelson, Kenneth - 2009
investigated countries provide social assistance benefits above the EU near poverty threshold. Social assistance benefit levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335403
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The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela - 2002
Economic models of household behavior typically yield the prediction that increases in schooling levels and wage rates of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other Southern European countries, low labor market participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262820
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Labor income taxation, human capital and growth: the role of child care
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2008
This paper studies the implications of introducing child care in the human capital production function when assessing the effects of labor income taxation on growth. We develop an OLG model where formal schooling and child care enter the human capital production function as complements and we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264409
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The effect of child care on family structure: Theory and evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281794
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Social protection and response to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean: Innovations in registration and payment systems
Palomo, Nurth; Faulbaum, Luis Vargas; Machado, Anna Carolina - 2022
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the foundations of the economy and provoked devastating social effects in all the countries in the world, being Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) one of the most affected regions. This report updates the regional overview of the response measures...
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