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Breaking the low pay, no pay cycle: The effects of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement programme

Hendra, Richard; Riccio, James; Dorsett, Richard; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-32

This paper presents the final economic results of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) programme. ERA's distinctive combination of post-employment advisory support and financial incentives was designed to help low-income individuals who entered work sustain employment and advance in...

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Did the 2007 welfare reforms for low income parents in Australia increase welfare exits?

Fok, Yin King; McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school …-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment - the main welfare payment for this group - for at least one year … large, statistically significant and positive impacts on the hazard rates for exiting the welfare payment. Two thirds of …

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Mothers' labor supply and conditional cash transfers: Evidence from Chile

Dona, Gonzalo - In: Estudios de Economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 159-191

Taking advantage of a reform that made Chile's most popular conditional cash transfer program substantially more generous, I study its impact on mothers' labor supply using a difference-in-difference strategy. Previous research has focused on these effects near the inauguration of CCTs, never...

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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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Short-term training programs for immigrants in the German welfare system: Do effects differ from natives and why?

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; Aldashev, Alisher - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

German welfare system and identify differences in the effects determined by unobservable factors. Based on comprehensive and …

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Welfare against growth gains in post-transition countries: What are the consequences for stability?

Lissowska, Maria - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-13, pp. 1-37

This paper discusses the underpinnings of the financial crisis of the last decade in post-transition countries. It explores the endogenous reasons of this crisis, and in particular a possible link between delayed and unequal growth of household incomes on the one hand and the instability of the...

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The measurement of public goods: Lessons from 10 years of Atkinson in the United Kingdom

Foxton, Fred; Grice, Joseph; Heys, Richard; Lewis, James - In: Eurostat Review on National Accounts and Macroeconomic … (2019) 2, pp. 7-50

When considering issues of measuring welfare beyond gross domestic product (GDP), a key ongoing, but unfinished, agenda … national statistical institutes are also now grappling with a second task; measuring changes in welfare or well-being more …

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Programmable money: next-generation blockchain-based conditional payments

Weber, Ingo; Staples, Mark - In: Digital Finance 4 (2022) 2, pp. 109-125

Conditional payments allow the transfer of money only when pre-defined rules hold. Example uses could include welfare …

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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World

Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - In: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 123 (2021) 4, pp. 1116-1158

-run redistribution diverges from annual redistribution in welfare states of different types. Exploiting panel data from the Cross … welfare states such as Germany that are assumed to engage in a high level of redistribution actually achieve relatively less … between individuals. The results suggest that, in welfare states with aging populations, we might expect growing annual …

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Hohe Gaspreisanstiege: Entlastungen notwendig

Neuhoff, Karsten; Longmuir, Maximilian; Kröger, Mats; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 89 (2022) 36, pp. 455-463

Aufgrund der starken Abhängigkeit Deutschlands von russischem Gas müssen alle Möglichkeiten zum Gassparen genutzt werden, um eine mögliche Gasknappheit zu vermeiden. Zugleich sind die Gaspreise stark gestiegen und besonders betroffene Haushalte müssen entlastet werden. Auf Grundlage einer...

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