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Social policies and redistribution in Brazil

Leubolt, Bernhard - 2014

This paper aims at analyzing the contribution of social policies to declining rates of income inequalities in Brazil since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, Brazil is characterised as a traditionally patrimonial society, marked by the institution of slavery....

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Social policies and redistribution in South Africa

Leubolt, Bernhard - 2014

This paper aims at analyzing the effects of social policies on income inequalities in South Africa since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, the heritage of a distributional regime based on institutional racism is highlighted. This had lasting effects on social...

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Is social investment inimical to the poor?

Noël, Alain - In: Socio-economic review 18 (2020) 3, pp. 857-880

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Assessment of the social expenditure impact on the economic growth in OECD countries

Malyovanyi, Mykhaylo; Ivanova, Nataliia; Melnyk, Kateryna; … - In: Problems and perspectives in management : PPM ; … 16 (2018) 3, pp. 389-405

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Boosting work through welfare? : individual-level employment outcomes of social investment across European welfare states through the Great Recession

Ronchi, Stefano - In: Socio-economic review 21 (2023) 4, pp. 2167-2189

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Should wages be subsidized in a pandemic?

Abbott, Brant; Phan Van Nam - 2022

We use a labor search model with heterogenous households and firms to study the efficacy of a wage subsidy during a … that sector choose whether to lay off workers or keep them on payroll. A wage subsidy encourages firms to keep workers on … payroll, which speeds up labor market recovery after the pandemic ends. However, a wage subsidy can be costlier than enhancing …

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Short-time work subsidies in a matching model

Meier, Volker - 2018

We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers' income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...

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Unemployment Insurance as a subsidy to risky firms

Doornik, Bernardus Ferdinandus Nazar van; Fazio, Dimas M.; … - 2020

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Should wages be subsidized in a pandemic?

Abbott, Brant; Phan Van Nam - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 27 (2023) 6, pp. 1549-1580

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Inclusive growth : what future for the European social model?

Schmid, Günther - 2014

This essay starts, after a short introduction on the importance and dimensions of "inclusive growth", with a brief empirical sketch on to what extent Europe has already succeeded with respect to this ambitious goal. The result is quite sobering and gives rise to the question: why is it so? The...

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