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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
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This paper investigates the relationship between the magnitude of automatic stabilizers in the tax and transfer systems of 19 EU countries and the US, and discretionary fiscal stimulus packages passed by these countries during the recent economic crisis. In particular, we ask whether countries...
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The federal government enacted massive spending in the Pandemic Recession. But was this spending scaled to the magnitude of the economic downturn? We examine the responsiveness of the safety net to the Pandemic Recession and compare it to that in the Great Recession. Using monthly state-level...
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The global financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the economic foundations of nations, collapsed large financial institutions, and wiped out the livelihoods of millions of people. The crisis also marked a turning point for social policy, as world leaders were forced to take an ideological position:...
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youth can be found in casual and informal work where they are neither protected by labor law nor benefiting from social … policy measures that can mitigate the effects of the economic crisis on the youth and on child labor …
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This paper examines the current global economic crisis and its challenges on youth and children development. It argues … nation – states occasioning fundamental crisis on youth development. The paper utilized predominantly secondary sources of … practical measures which can be found useful in containing this crisis of youth development that is occasioned by the global …
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This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey …
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) to impacts at the household level and specifically on children’s and youth rights. Whilst none of the country cases are … capital. Children and youth rights are compromised as it effect are mediated through households coping with reduced … severe impacts on children and youth in these countries but policy responses can mitigate these effects, in particular …
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