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Convergencia en protección social en la Unión Europea (1980-2001)/Convergence and Social Protection in EU (1980-2001)
ÁLVAREZ AYUSO, INMACULADA; DE LUCAS SANTOS, SONIA; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 27 (2009) Diciembre, pp. 663-678
El modelo social europeo está siendo objeto de un intenso debate que trata de establecer en qué medida se ha visto afectado por los cambios socioeconómicos que han experimentado las economías europeas en las últimas décadas. Aunque cada Estado Miembro es responsable de la organización y...
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Transferencias Monetarias, Pobreza y Desigualdad en América Latina y el Caribe
Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023
Evaluamos los sistemas de transferencias monetarias no contributivas en 17 países de América Latina y el Caribe para identificar factores que les impiden reducir la pobreza y la desigualdad. Para realizar esta evaluación, analizamos tres dimensiones de tamaño (número de beneficiarios,...
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Transferencias Monetarias, Pobreza y Desigualdad en América Latina y el Caribe
Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023
Evaluamos los sistemas de transferencias monetarias no contributivas en 17 países de América Latina y el Caribe para identificar factores que les impiden reducir la pobreza y la desigualdad. Para realizar esta evaluación, analizamos tres dimensiones de tamaño (número de beneficiarios,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545281
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Social protection and revenue collection: How they can jointly contribute to strengthening social cohesion
Burchi, Francesco; von Schiller, Armin; Strupat, Christoph - In: International Social Security Review 73 (2020) 3, pp. 13-32
Social protection and revenue collection are often regarded as potential drivers of social cohesion. The article joins this debate, providing three main contributions. First, we carefully discuss the concept of social cohesion and endorse one specific definition. Second, we propose using the...
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Labor-intensive public works programs in sub-Saharan Africa : experiences and implications for employment policies
Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Braun, Joachim von - 2019
employment generation in addition to their protective role such as consumption smoothening. The paper reviews evidence on the … employment generation. Based on our review complemented with secondary data analyses, we conclude that in addition to their role … outcomes and thus enhance employment creation. Yet we also find that more systematic investigations on shortterm implementation …
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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems
Kraus, Margit - 2000
This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...
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Social Protection Convergence in the European Union: Impact of Maastricht Treaty
Attia, Nicole; Berenger, Valérie - In: Panoeconomicus 54 (2007) 4, pp. 469-487
The main goal of this paper is to test the convergence of social protection expenditures and, more specifically, to examine the incidence of the Maastricht Treaty on this process. We tested several hypotheses of convergence on 12 EU Member States between 1980 and 2000, by considering two...
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Labor-intensive public works programs in sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences and implications for employment policies
Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; von Braun, Joachim - 2019
employment generation in addition to their protective role such as consumption smoothening. The paper reviews evidence on the … employment generation. Based on our review complemented with secondary data analyses, we conclude that in addition to their role … outcomes and thus enhance employment creation. Yet we also find that more systematic investigations on shortterm implementation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140787
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Labor market participation: the impact of social benefits in the Czech Republic
Fialová, Kamila; Mysíková, Martina - 2009
This paper aims to quantify the impact of social benefits on labor market participation in the Czech Republic. It applies the logistic regression to estimate the probability of labor market participation depending on social benefits related to net wage of the individuals, controlling for...
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …
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