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Schwinn, Steven D. - 2008

The federal government's welfare reform efforts have two defining characteristics: first, welfare reform requires welfare recipients to work for their checks (and to move toward permanent, self-sustainable employment); and second welfare reform devolves administrative responsibility to the...

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Safety Nets for the Poor : A Missing International Dimension?

Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006

Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...

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Income inequality and fiscal redistribution in 47 LIS-countries, 1967-2014

Caminada, Koen; Wang, Jinxian; Goudswaard, Kees Pieter; … - 2017

In most OECD countries the gap between rich and poor has widened over the past decades. This paper analyzes whether and to what extent taxes and social transfers have contributed to this trend. Has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time? The paper contributes to...

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Tax policy reform and universal basic income effectiveness in a currency union : implications for long-term growth, inequality, and welfare

Kame Babilla, Thierry U. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 10 (2023), pp. 1-15

This paper aims to assess tax policy reforms that can sustain universal basic income programs and foster long-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government and economics' debate, we developed a Dynamic Stochastic...

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Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs : some international comparisons

Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Xu, Jing; Yue, Ximing - 2020

This paper offers a new way of assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use social welfare functions to measure the efficiency of such program s without requir ing the specif ication of a poverty line or particular poverty...

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Is Social Protection a Luxury Good?

Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin; Torre, Iván - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The claim that social protection is a luxury good--with a national income elasticity exceeding unity--has as been influential. The paper tests the "luxury good hypothesis" using newly-assembled data on social protection spending across countries since 1995, treating the pandemic period...

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Social trust and the support for universal basic income

Gubello, Michele - 2023

This paper presents a theoretical model showing how political mistrust affects people's preferences for Universal Basic Income (UBI) when its implementation involves a reduction in spending for other public services (welfare retrenchment). The model shows that individuals with lower levels of...

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Is Social Protection a Luxury Good?

Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin; Torre, Iván - 2022

The claim that social protection is a luxury good—with a national income elasticity exceeding unity—has been influential. The paper tests the “luxury good hypothesis” using newly-assembled data on social protection spending across countries since 1995, treating the pandemic period...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244468

Weathering the storms? : minimum-income benefits as a crisis response

Immervoll, Herwig; Pasteiner, Felizia - 2025

Economic crises produce rapid and sizable shifts in the demand for social support. Means-tested cash transfers, such as "social assistance" programmes and related minimum-income benefits (MIB) typically function as benefits of last-resort, filling some of the support gaps left by other...

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Social protection and climate disasters : Brazil’s responses to the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul Floods

Tebaldi, Raquel - 2025

The 2024 floods in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, prompted the largest and fastest response to an extreme … weather event in the country’s history. Brazil is a compelling case for analysing shock-responsive and climate-adaptive social … protection because of its high level of decentralisation and significant maturity of its social protection system. Brazil is also …

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