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Social Safety Nets, Economic Freedom and Public Policy
Kaur, Simrit - 2009
What is the relationship between social welfare, safety nets and economic freedom? Arguably, if economic freedom (EF) promotes growth and if it trickles down EF promotes larger freedoms (e.g. a healthy and productive life, free from want and deprivation). However, higher EF by definition entails...
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Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory with an Application to Foreign Aid
Ouattara, Bazoumana; Amegashie, J. Atsu; Strobl, Eric - 2009
The paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of a donor's choice of the composition of unrestricted and in-kind/restricted transfers to a recipient and how this composition is adjusted in response to changes in the moral hazard behavior of the recipient. In-kind or restricted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301489
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Bullet Proof? Program Evaluation in Conflict Areas: Evidence from Rural Colombia
Wald, Nina; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2011
Recently, Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (CCT) became increasingly popular in developing countries due to their positive outcomes on health and education. In this paper, we are particularly interested in testing if children participating in CCT (treated) in conflict affected regions benefit...
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Direct job creation revisited: Is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Wolff, Joachim; Hohmeyer, Katrin - 2011
Bringing welfare recipients into jobs is a major goal of German labour market policy since a reform of the year 2005. Direct job creation providing participants with tem-porary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305957
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The dynamics of welfare entry and exit among natives and immigrants
Wunder, Christoph; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2011
This paper uses panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to analyze welfare entry and exit among natives and immigrants after a substantial reform of the welfare system (``Hartz reform''). Using results from dynamic multinomial logit models, we calculate transition matrices between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306205
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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the US Welfare Reform
Gathmann, Christina; Boyer, Pierre - 2015
We study the political determinants of policy experimentation during the US welfare reform. Among other changes, this reform shifted the autonomy to implement welfare policies from the federal government to the individual states. In line the predictions from a political agency model, we find...
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The Market for Nursing Homes in Germany: a spatial competition approach
Hange, Ulrich - 2015
The German nursing home industry rapidly grows due to the permanent increase of people in need of long-term care, in particular. At the same time a large share of residents in German nursing homes is in need of social assistance. In a simple spatial competition model we show that the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301449
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Pension programs around the world: determinants of social pension
Rudolph, Alexandra; Priebe, Jan - 2015
forecasted. This paper investigates the main instrument to fight old age poverty: Social, non-contributory pension systems. A new … comprehensive data set on 172 countries over the 2001-2013 period on the provision of social pension across the world allows us to … investigate recent trends in social pension implementation and test internal and external political economy drivers of the process …
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Effectiveness of Sequences of Classroom Training for Welfare Recipients: What works best in West Germany?
Dengler, Katharina - 2015
Sequences of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) may be part of an intensified activation strategy targeting hard-to-place individuals who may be long-term unemployed and who may encounter extreme difficulty in finding jobs. Such sequences are very common among welfare recipients in Germany,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301715
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Determinants of drinking water treatment and hygiene habits in provincial towns in Yemen
Rieckmann, Johannes - 2015
Development projects focusing mainly on the supply side of infrastructure repeatedly turn out to yield poor impact when being rigorously evaluated. This is also the case for an intervention connecting urban households in Yemen to piped water and improved sewerage networks. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301779