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What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure.
Schoeni, R.F.; Blank, R.M. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 2000
, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formtion. While no single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005638576
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Political Support for Targeted versus Universalistic Welfare Policies
Moene, K.O.; Wallerstein, M. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1997
This paper compares the political support for a targeted and a universalistic welfare policy in a model in which incomes are stochastic (so that welfare policies have an insurance benefit) and unequal ex ante (so that welfare policies have a redistributive effect). With self-interested voting,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424059
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Devolution as a means to adequate social safety nets?
Van Mechelen, Natascha; De Maesschalck, Veerle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
aimed at redistribution and reducing poverty (and welfare generosity) the assumption that redistribution is best organised … of poverty alleviation – through a better targeting of benefits -, prudence is called for the fact that there might be a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836017
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Employment policy in Mainland Tanzania : what's in it for women?
Lambin, Roosa; Nyyssölä, Milla - 2022
design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by … lower levels of education and social capital, deeper levels of poverty, and limited access to assets-while also being …, through their effects on workingage women's employment in the 2000s. We also discuss the extent to which women's employment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259850
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Optimal lockdown and social welfare
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2020
This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social criterion can, under some conditions, imply a COVID-19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313558
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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A frequently prescribed remedy is to reduce social stress by reducing income inequality, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249997
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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A frequently prescribed remedy is to reduce social stress by reducing income inequality, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278609
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Recent changes in housing policies and their distributional impact across Europe
Figari, Francesco; Hollan, Katarina; Matsaganis, Manos; … - 2019
This paper aims to explore how housing allowances and mortgage interest tax relief have evolved in recent years, against the background of falling disposable incomes and rising housing costs. The analysis focuses on seven EU countries (Greece, Italy, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389715
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Recent changes in housing policies and their distributional impact across Europe
Figari, Francesco; Hollan, Katarina; Matsaganis, Manos; … - 2019
This paper aims to explore how housing allowances and mortgage interest tax relief have evolved in recent years, against the background of falling disposable incomes and rising housing costs. The analysis focuses on seven EU countries (Greece, Italy, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028976
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Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs: Some international comparisons
Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Xu, Jing; Yue, Ximing - 2020
ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389663