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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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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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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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Can welfare conditionality combat high school dropout?
Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian youths. Our evaluation strategy exploits a geographically differentiated implementation of...
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Targeted cash transfers, credit constraints, and ethnic migration in the People's Republic of China
Howell, Anthony - 2019
This paper relies on recent proprietary data from the People's Republic of China's (PRC) poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit constraints on internal labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via the PRC's minimum living standard assistance (MLSA) program is...
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How did Feldstein (1985) undervalue the optimal level of social security benefits?
Simonovits, András - 2017
In his seminal model (Feldstein, 1985), the government operates a social security system to counter the representative worker's myopia. (i) For a complete myope, he determined a sizable optimal tax rate (and the corresponding benefit level). (ii) For a partially shortsighted worker, he...
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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 - 2019
We empirically analyze the optimal mix and optimal generosity of unemployment insurance and social assistance programs. To do so, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply, savings, and social assistance claiming decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance...
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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 - First version: March 25, 2015, This version: October 31, 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...
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Making work pay : increasing labour supply of secondary earners in low income families with children
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2015
objectives of higher employment and lower poverty levels. In this paper we present a simulation exercise to examine labour supply … increasing the potential of in-work support to alleviate poverty. …
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Jumping the welfare gap in designing public transfers
Simonovits, András - 2017
We consider three transfer models with a representative individual who discounts the utility of the merit good with respect to the standard one's. In each model, a paternalistic government taxes the consumer and transfers him additional merit goods in return. The private purchase of the merit...
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