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The importance of income-tested benefits in good times and bad : lessons from EU countries
Leventi, Chrysa; Rastrigina, Olga; Sutherland, Holly - 2016
effectiveness of income-tested benefits at different points in the economic cycle. This objective is considered in terms of coverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449199
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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023
(coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories … size of their transfers and their historic under-coverage of the population living in poverty. Transfers represent … categories. Our policy recommendations include: (i) intensifying efforts to increase coverage among the poor, using modern …
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Do larger school grants improve educational attainment? : evidence from urban Mexico
Araujo, María Caridad; Martínez, María Adelaida; … - 2018
students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in …
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Social Assistance and Minimum Income Benefits : Benefit Levels, Replacement Rates and Policies Across 33 Countries, 1990-2009
Wang, Jinxian - 2015
Until recently, social assistance has received relatively little attention in the comparative welfare state literature, which is remarkable given its central function in combating poverty and pursuing social inclusion. This paper explores the developments of social assistance and minimum income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031566
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Intensive and Extensive Margin Labor Supply Responses to Kinks in Disability Insurance Programs
Myhre, Andreas - 2021
While kinks are prevalent in tax and transfer systems, the fiscal revenue and behavioral responses are not fully understood. In disability insurance (DI) programs, for instance, kinks help balance the moral hazard effects from the induced entry with the provision of work incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213984
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Minimum income schemes in Europe : is there a trade-off with activation policies?
Iacono, Roberto - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 6 (2017) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, by employing a macro-level institutional dataset on benefit levels for social assistance (SA) and minimum income protection (MIP) in 22 European countries in the period 1990–2013, I show that the adequacy of income support for...
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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 that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202861
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Social Assistance and Minimum Income Benefits : Benefit Levels, Replacement Rates and Policies Across 26 OECD Countries, 1990-2009
Wang, Jinxian; van Vliet, Olaf - 2016
Until recently, social assistance and minimum income benefits have received relatively little attention in the comparative welfare state literature. Relying on two new indicators, this paper examines the development of minimum income benefits across 26 EU and other OECD countries. The real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025947
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Garantiesicherung : zweifelhafte Vision zur Überwindung von Hartz IV
Cremer, Georg - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 99 (2019) 8, pp. 570-574
Die Grünen wollen Hartz IV durch ein garantiertes Einkommen ersetzen, das höher ist als das derzeitige Arbeitslosengeld II und nach Einkommen, Vermögen und Bedarf gewährt wird, ansonsten aber bedingungslos und ohne Sanktionen ist. Aktive Beschäftigungspolitik und Mindesteinkommenspolitik...
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The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?
Stampini, Marco; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2012
assistance. The largest programs (in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico) have achieved coverage rates around 50-55% of the poor. At the … intergenerational transmission of poverty. Pioneered in Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s, by 2011 CCTs had spread to 18 countries in … data to document (i) the evolution of CCTs and poverty in LAC, (ii) the relationship between expanded coverage and the …
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