affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … billion per year, while household income rises only by EUR 1.1 billion per year. Poor households, i.e. those eligible for … employment - depending on the subsidies' incidence - and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income …

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income … families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … data also point to divergence across the two countries. In the UK, low-income families affected by the reforms are spending …

. We find that overall there is less inequality (both wage and income) and less poverty than in the United Kingdom and the …

We examine whether China's remarkable reduction in income poverty has been accompanied by comparable progress in health … much more quickly by almost all other countries considered, and in particular by most lower middle income countries that … significantly lower than for comparator countries.China's experience of reducing health deprivations has been notably less …

expectancy and infant mortality in Italy are better and have improved more over time. The implication is that the Italian health …Canada spends more than Italy on health per capita and as a share of GDP and has a higher per capita GDP. Yet, life … care system provides better value for money. We examine whether Italy does get better health outcomes at lower costs. Using …

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to make difficult ethical choices, e.g., how to balance public health and … less aggressive control policies. Utilitarianism and prioritarianism, in that order, increasingly favor income …

left-right political spectrum, religiosity, income level and health … continents – the USA, Brazil, Germany and China. The authors use the Human Beliefs and Values Survey data to examine several …

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income … families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … data also point to divergence across the two countries. In the UK, low-income families affected by the reforms are spending …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …