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Erwerbsminderungsrentner : sinkende Leistungen und wachsende Einkommensunterschiede im Alter

Krause, Peter; Erhlich, Ulrike; Möhring, Katja - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 24, pp. 3-9

According to the Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German statutory pension insurance scheme), since the mid-1990s, the … number of people claiming a reduced earnings capacity pension has plummeted. However, 2005-2010 saw a slight rise. Since 2001 … study also indicate increasingly negative income disparities among recipients of reduced earnings capacity pension once they …

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Did the 2007 welfare reforms for low income parents in Australia increase welfare exits?

Fok, Yin King; McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year. Specifically, the reforms introduced a requirement to...

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Can public works programs mitigate the impact of crises in Europe? : the case of Latvia

Azam, Mehtabul; Ferré, Céline; Ajwad, Mohamed - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

To mitigate the impact of the 2008–2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that targeted registered unemployed people who were not receiving unemployment benefits. This paper...

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Geburten in Ost- und Westdeutschland : erleichtert eine hohe Risikobereitschaft die Entscheidung für ein Kind?

Schmitt, Christian - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 11, pp. 18-23

Die von wirtschaftlichen Umbrüchen geprägten Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung waren für viele Ostdeutsche mit zunehmender Unsicherheit verbunden, während die Veränderungen in Westdeutschland weitaus weniger gravierend waren. In der Folge kam es in den 90er Jahren zu einem massiven Rückgang...

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Financing the public health system : defining reference point for optimizing managerial decisions

Nicolae, Stoina Cristian - In: Budgetary research review : BRR 3 (2011) 1, pp. 67-74

, valid for the analysed reference system. -- health assurance budget ; health economics …

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Never give up? : the persistence of welfare participation in Sweden

Andrén, Thomas; Andrén, Daniela - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

Long-term social assistance dependency is a growing concern in Sweden and other European countries. In order for policy makers to design effective welfare reforms it is important to know how strong the state dependence associated with social assistance is in the population and to what extent it...

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Evaluating the Chile Solidario program : results using the Chile Solidario panel and the administrative databases

Hoces de la Guardia, Fernando; Hojman, Andrés; … - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 129-168

This paper presents the results of a three-year evaluation performed on the first cohorts of Chile Solidario, the most important anti-poverty program in Chile. The paper presents a description of the program, emphasizing the mechanism by which people were admitted into the program. We then...

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Alleviating extreme poverty in Chile : the short term effects of Chile Solidario

Galasso, Emanuela - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 101-127

This paper evaluates the effect of an anti-poverty program, Chile Solidario, during its first two years of operation. We find that the program tends to increases significantly their take-up of cash assistance programs and of social programs for housing and employment, and to improve education...

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Bank interest margin and default risk under the capped schedule for government capital injections in the Basel III capital adequacy accord

Chang, Chuen-ping; Tsai, Jeng-yan - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 1, pp. 161-175

The Basel III Capital Adequacy Accord (BCAA) will cap government capital injections as qualifying capital at 90% of the nominal amount of such capital outstanding, beginning in 2013, and the cap will decline by 10% during each subsequent year (Eubanks, 2010); this cap is called a capped ratio...

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Cost of deposit insurance under capital forbearance : Basel I vs. II

Lee, Shih-cheng - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 2, pp. 39-48

The study derives the closed-form solution of the valuation of deposit insurance under forbearance for banks whose capital requirements are either solely based on the 1988 Basel Accord (BA) approach or the VaR-based approach. The study also demonstrates that the deposit insurance liability under...

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