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Tax and benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness and address poverty in Italy
Bulman, Tim; Pacifico, Daniele; Pisu, Mauro; … - 2019
This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package … significantly strengthens Italy’s low income protection system but can also financially discourage recipients from working. The … results of the in-depth chapter of the OECD 2019 Economic Survey of Italy (2019[1]) on social and regional disparities. …
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The local and regional impact of the UK's welfare reforms
Beatty, Christina; Fothergill, Steve - In: Cambridge journal of regions economy and society 7 (2014) 1, pp. 63-79
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Are parental welfare work requirements good for disadvantaged children? : evidence from age-of-youngest-child exemptions
Herbst, Chris M. - 2014
This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the U.S.'s welfare work requirement rules - namely, age-of-youngest-child exemptions - as a source of...
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Retrenchment, reform, continuity : welfare under the coalition
Gaffney, Declan - In: National Institute economic review (2015) 231, pp. 44-53
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Does cutting child benefits reduce fertility in larger families? : evidence from the UK’s two-child limit
Reader, Mary; Portes, Jonathan; Patrick, Ruth - 2022
We study the impact of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family on the fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the UK did not receive means-tested child benefits,...
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The consumption, income, and well-being of single mother-headed families 25 years after welfare reform
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - In: National tax journal 74 (2021) 3, pp. 791-824
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Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits : lessons from recent UK reforms
Blundell, Richard W.; Meghir, Costas - 2002
Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...
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Effects of maternal work incentives on adolescent social behaviors
Dave, Dhaval; Corman, Hope; Kalil, Ariel; … - 2019
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The role of electoral incentives for policy innovation : evidence from the U.S. welfare reform
Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2018 - This version: March 19, 2018
We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our empirical setting is the U.S. welfare reform in 1996, which marked the most dramatic shift in social policy since the New Deal. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors...
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Cash assistance in America : the role of race, politics, and poverty
Hardy, Bradley L.; Samudra, Rhucha; Davis, Jourdan A. - In: The review of black political economy : analyzing … 46 (2019) 4, pp. 306-324
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