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Expenditure Patterns Post-Welfare Reform in the UK : are Low-Income Families Starting to Catch Up?
Gregg, Paul - 2010
In this paper we provide evidence on how the UK government's welfare reforms since 1998 have affected the material well-being of children in low-income families. We examine changes in expenditure patterns and ownership of durable goods for low- and higher-income families between the pre-reform...
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Targeting of social transfers : are India's elderly poor left behind?
Asri, Viola - 2017
the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration …
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Social Transfers, Changing Family Structure, and Low Income Among Children
Picot, Garnett; Myles, John - 2008
. Rather child poverty has followed the usual fluctuations of the business cycle. We show that the relative stability in child … poverty rates in the face of declining labor market earnings is a result of two factors. First, the decline in market income … has been swamped by other changes in family patterns and labor market behavior that have reduced the risk of child poverty …
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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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State dependence in Canadian welfare participation
Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years...
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The unsustainable rise of the disability rolls in the united states : causes, consequences, and policy options
Autor, David H. - 2011
Two ailments limit the effectiveness and threaten the long-term viability of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance program (SSDI). First, the program is ineffective in assisting the vast majority of workers with less severe disabilities to reach their employment potential or earn their...
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510507
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517688
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519552
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530687