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Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022
We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work status) has gone through a significant transformation since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013331051
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India : Public Works Versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra - 2011
This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large household datasets constructed with National Sample Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134032
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De-facto gaps in social protection for standard and non-standard workers : an approach for monitoring the accessibility and levels of income support
Immervoll, Herwig; Fernández, Rodrigo; Hyee, Raphaela; … - 2022
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy objectives hinge on the extent to which social protection is accessible for those requiring support....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198830
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How reliable are social safety nets? : value and accessibility in situations of acute economic need
Immervoll, Herwig; Hyee, Raphaela; Fernández, Rodrigo; … - 2022
Social protection systems use a range of entitlement criteria. First-tier support typically requires contributions or past employment in many countries, while safety net benefits are granted on the basis of need. In a context of volatile and uncertain labour markets, careful and continuous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186742
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household data sets constructed by National Sample Survey (NSS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106841
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Getting poor to work: Three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model … that provides improved incentives to work full-time has negligible effects on overall labor supply. With equal welfare … weights, aggregate welfare gains are realizable under all three reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314549
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Intra-household resource shares under poverty transfers: Evidence from Ecuador
Casco, José L. - 2022
and increase household welfare by reducing poverty, especially for women and children. I also show that when the mother …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319968
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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model … that provides improved incentives to work full-time has negligible effects on overall labor supply. With equal welfare … weights, aggregate welfare gains are realizable under all three reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298903
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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model … that provides improved incentives to work full-time has negligible effects on overall labor supply. With equal welfare … weights, aggregate welfare gains are realizable under all three reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305299
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Fighting lone mothers' poverty through in-work benefits : methodological issues and policy suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786019