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Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK

Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022

We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … are now on disability benefits, up from 2% in 1992–93. This rise has been driven by claims for mental health and other …

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Effects of work requirements for food assistance eligibility on disability claiming

Stith, Sarah S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31

Between 2010 and 2017, 42 U.S. states added work requirements as a food assistance eligibility criterion for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs). Another U.S. public assistance program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), provides food assistance without a work requirement, along with...

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Effects of work requirements for food assistance eligibility on disability claiming

Stith, Sarah S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31

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Missed opportunities? The development of human welfare in Western Europe, 1913-1950

Albarrán, Daniel Gallardo - 2017

the 8-hour working day. To measure the contribution of these aspects to broader welfare, I apply a new utility …-based framework that, contrary to previous composite indices such as the Human Development Index, allows for a welfare analysis … underestimates welfare growth significantly (up to five percent annually). Moreover, with this indicator cross-country differences in …

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Fairly Sharing the Social Impact of the Crisis in Greece

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Matsaganis, Manos; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

reforms in targeting social support, especially housing benefits, extending unemployment insurance and introducing a means …

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The dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2009

We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the SA entry rate, rather than by the SA exit rate (which actually declined too). We examine the...

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Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Raising Employment Rates in Israel

Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which …. Microeconomic simulations of taxes and benefits suggest room for augmenting these policies with adjustments to benefits and tax …

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