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This paper provides an overview on the income support measures for non-covered workers implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis, describing the collection of measures and policies in place in each selected country. This document provides a comparative overview of the different measures...
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This paper addresses four persistent legal and philosophical issues that imbue workfare, albeit usually not explicitly …. First, forced labour is relatively common charge against workfare. If workfare is tantamount to forced labour, it cannot be … controversial argument in justifying workfare. And finally, the paper addresses Basic Income Guarantee, which is the mirror image of …
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Traditional welfare and employment policies have been unable to tackle the problems of high unemployment and exclusion in OECD countries and recently a wave of new approaches has emerged together with new political notions of welfare-to-work. This book describes these new approaches in countries...
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The main problem of this article is the basic income guarantee in the perspective of institutional economics. The author evaluates theoretical literature considering the topic and discusses past empirical research. The predicted and the actual outcomes of the programme are compared and...
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Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...
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