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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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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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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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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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Social policy targeting and binary information transfer between surveys
Gottlieb, Daniel; Kushnir, Leonid - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-30, pp. 1-16
In this paper we develop a methodology for identifying a population group surveyed latently in the (target) survey relevant for further processing, for example poverty calculations, but surveyed explicitly in another (source) survey, not suitable for such processing. Identification is achieved...
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Schnittstellenprobleme in Familienpolitik und Familienrecht
Ott, Notburga; Schürmann, Heinrich; Werding, Martin - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 83 (2014) 1, pp. 13-28
Maßnahmen der Familienpolitik verteilen sich über unterschiedliche Rechtsgebiete, insbesondere das Steuer-, Sozial- und Unterhaltsrecht. Das historisch gewachsene Gefüge dieser Maßnahmen weist zahlreiche Schnittstellen zwischen Einzelregelungen auf, die nur selten bewusst gestaltet sind,...
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Wer ist von Altersarmut bedroht?
Lewicki, Maria; Wigger, Berthold U. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 7, pp. 462-465
Altersarmut ist gegenwärtig in Deutschland ein zentrales Thema. Für die Zukunft wird ein deutlicher Anstieg befürchtet. Wer aber ist davon bedroht? Die Autoren werfen einen detaillierten Blick auf typisierte Erwerbsverläufe und deren Folgen für die Höhe der Renten. Sie kommen zu dem...
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Entfremdung und Ausgrenzung: Afrikas neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologus 58 (2008) 2, pp. 197-222
Der neue Nationalismus in Afrika und anderswo unterscheidet sich in Ursachen und Auswirkungen wesentlich von dem nationaler Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen der 1960er Jahre. Anders als der erste Nationalismus setzt der zweite weniger auf Einschluss denn auf Ausschluss von Bevölkerungsgruppen;...
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