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The effects of welfare time limits on access to financial resources: Evidence from the 2010s
Pepin, Gabrielle - 2020
Needy Families (TANF) program within the United States. TANF mandated 60-month lifetime time limits for federal cash … lifetime limit did not bind in all cases. In recent years, however, several states imposed TANF time limits for the first time … decrease annual TANF participation by 22 percent and annual transfer income by 6 percent. Consistent with binding TANF work …
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No claim, no pain: Measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2009
The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...
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European schemes of social assistance: an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts
Kraus, Margit; Hölsch, Katja - 2002
This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...
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Poverty Alleviation and the Degree of Centralisation in European Schemes of Social Assistance
Kraus, Margit; Hölsch, Katja - 2003
In this paper, the relationship between the degree of centralisation and the distributive outcomes in European schemes of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes except for Luxembourg according to features related to...
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Capacidades estatais no programa bolsa família: O desafio de consolidação do sistema único de assistência social
Coutinho, Diogo R. - 2013
In a slow process marked by authoritarian moments, regressive effects, bureaucratic insulation, centralized arrangements and cronyism, since the 1930s Brazil has been building its Welfare State. In the wake of struggles and political clashes for ensuring rights and reviving democracy, the...
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Social assistance in Central and Eastern Europe: Features and characteristics
Avram, Silvia - 2013
This paper reviews the features of social assistance programs in Central and Eastern Europe in the mid 2000s along five dimensions, i.e. expenditure, entitlement rules, benefit levels, centralization of administration, and the provision of additional services. It finds that generally expenditure...
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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance
Hölsch, Katja; Kraus, Margit - 2003
In this paper, the relationship between the degree of centralisation and the distributive outcomes in European schemes of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes according to features related to centralisation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335445
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Minimum income schemes in Europe: Is there a trade-off with activation policies?
Iacono, Roberto - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 6 (2017) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, by employing a macro-level institutional dataset on benefit levels for social assistance (SA) and minimum income protection (MIP) in 22 European countries in the period 1990-2013, I show that the adequacy of income support for...
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The negotiated politics of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa
Hickey, Sam; Lavers, Tom; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2018
Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or...
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Targeting and Self-Targeting in a New Social Assistance Scheme
Micklewright, John; Coudouel, Aline; Marnie, Sheila - 2004
The analysis of targeting of cash benefits is typically silent on whether any success is due to encouraging claims from the poor or to the decisions of administrators on the claims they receive. By contrast, the paper models the probabilities of households? knowledge of a new social assistance...
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