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Are friends of schools the enemies of equity? The interplay of public school funding policies and private external fundraising
Barrow, Lisa; Komisarow, Sarah; Sartain, Lauren - 2023
School districts across the U.S. have adopted funding policies designed to distribute resources more equitably across schools. However, schools are also increasing external fundraising efforts to supplement district budget allocations. We document the interaction between funding policies and...
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Did the 2017 tax reform discriminate against blue state voters?
Altig, David; Auerbach, Alan J.; Higgins, Patrick; … - 2019
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) made significant changes to corporate and personal federal income taxation, including limiting the SALT (state and local property, income and sales taxes) deductibility to $10,000. States with high SALT tend to vote Democratic. This paper estimates the...
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Állami beavatkozás, lokális eladósodás, túlfűtöttség és ezek rendszerbeli okai a globális válság alatt Kínában
Csanádi, Mária - 2013
This paper describes the impact of the global crisis on China, the central and local level government responses and preferences it triggered as well as the consequences these reactions had on national and regional levels. It focuses on the immediate economic and general systemic reasons of the...
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State Intervention, Local Indebtedness, Investment Overheating and Their Systemic Background During Global Crisis in China
Csanádi, Mária - 2013
This paper focuses on the immediate economic and systemic reasons of steadily increasing local government indebtedness and investment overheating in China. These two phenomena emerged between 2008 and 2011 as a direct consequence of an external shock caused by the global crisis and the...
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Policy makers, the international community and the population in the prevention and treatment of diseases: Case study on HIV/AIDS
Hausken, Kjell; Ncube, Mthuli - In: Health Economics Review 7 (2017) 5, pp. 1-12
A four-period game is developed between a policy maker, the international community, and the population. This research supplements, through implementing strategic interaction, earlier research analyzing "one player at a time". The first two players distribute funds between preventing and...
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The US unemployment insurance, a federal-state partnership: Relevance for reflections at the European level
Fischer, Georg - 2017
This paper describes the US Unemployment Insurance (UI) in particular the federal-state partnership in governance, funding and policy making. It discusses 'national interest' as defined by the Federal authorities in relation to UI: income support, economic and employment stabilization and...
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Enhancing pension adequacy while reducing the fiscal budget and creating essential capital for domestic investments and growth: Analysing the risks and outcomes in the case of Gree...
Symeonidis, Georgios; Tēnios, Platōn; Xenos, Panos - In: Risks 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17
Many countries around the world are resorting to mandatory funded components in their multi-pillar pension systems with the purpose of catering for the financial pressure from ageing. This paper aims at analysing the possible replacement rates for such a scheme, by choosing different assumptions...
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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain
Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel; Riscado, Sara - 2020
existing regional minimum income schemes, in terms of their coverage and adequacy, is of the essence. We assess the budgetary … coverage rates and adequacy levels. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD together with microdata from the European … combinations of coverage and adequacy levels using national and regional poverty lines as references. Our results suggest that …
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Pakistan's social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic: The adequacy of Ehsaas Emergency Cash and the road ahead
Markhof, Yannick - 2020
This Working Paper presents an analysis into the adequacy of Pakistan's social protection response to the COVID-19 … distinguishes adequacy considerations for emergency measures put in place from those for regular social protection. Subsequently, we … introduce EEC's programme design in light of the crisis and later discuss its adequacy regarding benefit values, coverage, and …
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How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets? Value and Accessibility in Situations of Acute Economic Need
Immervoll, Herwig; Hyee, Raphaela; Fernandez, Rodrigo; … - 2022
Social protection systems use a range of entitlement criteria. First-tier support typically requires contributions or past employment in many countries, while safety net benefits are granted on the basis of need. In a context of volatile and uncertain labour markets, careful and continuous...
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