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Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana
Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa … contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and … the enduring, but not unchallenged, political dominance of the conservatively paternalist Botswana Democratic Party. …
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Disability policies : reform strategies in a comparative perspective
Böheim, René; Leoni, Thomas - 2016
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Baseline utilisation of specialist disability services in Ireland
Brick, Aoife; Keegan, Conor; Wren, Maev-Ann - 2019
The objective of this paper is to analyse the data on specialist disability services available in Ireland. The paper provides a baseline utilisation profile of selected services which can be used to project future service demand and expenditure. The limitations of the currently available data in...
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The effect of economic conditions on the Disability Insurance Program : evidence from the Great Recession
Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Strand, Alexander - 2018
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When labor's lost : health, family life, incarceration, and education in a time of declining economic opportunity for low-skilled men
Coile, Courtney; Duggan, Mark G. - 2019
The economic progress of U.S. men has stagnated in recent decades, with declining labor force participation and weak growth in real earnings, particularly for less educated and non-white men. In this paper, we illuminate the broader context in which prime-age men are experiencing economic...
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Disability and distress : the effect of disability programs on financial outcomes
Deshpande, Manasi; Gross, Tal; Su, Yalun - 2019
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Protecting working-age people with disabilities : experiences of four industrialized nations
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid growth in program costs; greater awareness that people with impairments are able and willing to...
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The impact of the ACA Medicaid expansion on disability program applications
Schmidt, Lucie; Shore-Sheppard, Lara D.; Watson, Tara - 2019
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The impact of the ACA Medicaid expansion on disability program applications
Schmidt, Lucie; Shore-Sheppard, Lara D.; Watson, Tara - 2019
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded the availability of public health insurance, decreasing the relative benefit of participating in disability programs but also lowering the cost of exiting the labor market to apply for disability program benefits. In this paper, we explore the impact of...
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Intergenerational spillovers in disability insurance
Dahl, Gordon B.; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018
Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation, future labor market attachment, and human capital investments? While intergenerational concerns have figured prominently in policy debates for decades, causal evidence is scarce...
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