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Breaking the Fall : Successful Homeless Interventions in the COVID Pandemic
Flaming, Daniel; Pickens, Seth; Burns, Patrick - 2023
Government income and housing interventions during the COVID pandemic had demonstrable benefits in reducing the growth of homelessness. Comparisons of projected versus actual growth in Los Angeles County from 2020 to 2022 validate the benefit of these interventions.This report offers three types...
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Demographic change across the globe maintaining social security in ageing economies
Peeters, Marga; Groot, Lucas Franciscus Michaël - 2011
This paper investigates the fiscal pressure from demographic change in relation to the labour marketspace for fifty countries that cover 75% of the world population. The pressure-to-space indicator ranks Poland, Turkey and Greece high. Apart from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low...
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Demographic Change Across the Globe - Maintaining Social Security in Ageing Economies
Peeters, Marga - 2012
This paper investigates the fiscal pressure from demographic change in relation to the labor market space for fifty countries that cover 75% of the world population. The pressure-to-space indicator ranks Poland, Turkey and Greece high. Apart from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113360
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A Global View on Demographic Pressure and Labour Market Participation
Peeters, Marga - 2012
Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
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En-Gendering Economic Inequality
Gilman, Michele E. - 2016
We live in an era of growing economic inequality. Luminaries ranging from the President to the Pope to economist Thomas Piketty in his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty- First Century have raised alarms about the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Overlooked, however, in these...
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Earnings Business Cycles : The COVID Recession, Recovery, and Policy Response
Larrimore, Jeff; Mortenson, Jacob; Splinter, David - 2023
Using a panel of tax data, we follow the earnings of individuals over business cycles. Compared to prior recessions, the Covid policy response and recovery were far more progressive. Among workers starting in the bottom quintile, median real earnings including fiscal relief increased 66 percent...
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Earnings Business Cycles : The Covid Recession, Recovery, and Policy Response
Larrimore, Jeff; Mortenson, Jacob; Splinter, David - 2023
Using a panel of tax data, we follow the earnings of individuals over business cycles. Compared to prior recessions, the Covid policy response and recovery were far more progressive. Among workers starting in the bottom quintile, median real earnings including fiscal relief increased 66 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256334
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Quantifying 'Conditionality' : A New Database on Conditions and Sanctions for Unemployment Benefit Claimants
Knotz, Carlo; Nelson, Moira - 2013
This paper describes our new dataset on conditionality requirements for unemployment benefit claimants. Even though the past three decades have witnessed extensive efforts in quantifying social rights, conditionality remains relatively unexamined, with only a handful of excellent though...
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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
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Meritocracy across countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
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