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The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social … discuss the poverty implications of our results. …
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The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social … discuss the poverty implications of our results. …
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. Fourth, simple event studies examining employment in the years around the reduction of disability benefits (following a …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 …
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inequality and at-risk-of-poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for the differences between these and their …
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to livelihood, employment, old age, etc., and an increase in income inequality. The majority of economists and …
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At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary …
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According to a widely held belief, ?all who are able to work, should work?. We consider this statement within a framework of non-linear taxation. The crucial difference between our model and the standard model is that the government can distinguish between productive persons and the disabled. A...
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is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017 …-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem straightforwardly positive: lower poverty rates among pensioners and … rate of poverty in house holds where someone works. We examine the reason for the increased in-work relative poverty rate …
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This paper presents non-take-up rates of benefits from the German Income Support for Job Seekers scheme, called … Unemployment Benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II). Eligibility to these benefits is simulated by applying a microsimulation model based …, determinants of the decision (not) to take-up benefits are studied by means of a cross-sectional probit regression and a fixed …
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