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The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...
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Social policies play a critical role in the transformation of emerging economies. This paper discusses this with reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does not pay much attention to social policy or regards it...
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wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …
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and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …
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for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …
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In der explorativen Studie wurden 30 sanktionierte ALG II-Betroffene in intensiven problemzentrierten Interviews zu ihrer Lebenssituation, den Gründen für ihr sanktioniertes Verhalten, zu ihren Möglichkeiten der Bewältigung der Leistungskürzungen und zu den Auswirkungen der Sanktionen auf...
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We present first estimates of rates of non-take-up for social assistance in Germany after the implementation of major social policy reforms in 2005. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model, which includes a detailed description of the German social assistance programme. Our findings...
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Der spürbare Anstieg der Sozialhilfeausgaben von durchschnittlich mehr als 4 % p. a. in den vergangenen Jahren ist auf einen Anstieg der Zahl der Leistungsempfänger (Fälle) zurückzuführen, während die Ausgaben je Fall seit Jahren nahezu stagnieren. Die Autoren untersuchen im vorliegenden...
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