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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic countries? : evidence from Finnish register data

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2007

The non take-up of social assistance bene?ts due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty eÞect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both bene?t entitlement and...

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Coverage and adequacy of minimum income schemes in the European Union

Figari, Francesco; Haux, Tina; Matsaganis, Manos; … - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to explore and compare the effectiveness of Minimum Income (MI) schemes in protecting people of working age from poverty in the European Union. Using the EU-wide microsimulation model EUROMOD, we investigate (a) coverage and (b) adequacy of MI schemes in 18...

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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic Countries? : evidence from Finnish register data

Bargain, Olivier (contributor); … - 2007

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003616629

Research note: The effect of different indexation scenarios on child poverty in the UK

De Agostini, Paola; Tasseva, Iva - 2015

Using the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD and Family Resources Survey, we investigate what would have happened to child poverty in the UK in the periods 2010/11-2015/16 and 2015/16-2020/21 under a range of different indexation scenarios of children's benefits. We find that between...

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Politically sustainable probabilistic minority targeting

De Donder, Philippe; Peluso, Eugenio - 2014

We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the minority targeted, when the probability to receive the transfer is decreasing and concave in income. We apply our framework to the French social housing program and obtain that...

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Where does the money go? : assessing the expenditure and income effects of the Philippines' Conditional Cash Transfer Program

Quimbo, Stella A.; Capuno, Joseph J.; Kraft, Aleli D.; … - 2015

Evaluation studies on conditional cash transfers (CCT) in the Philippines found small if not insignificantly different … households receive higher transfers from other domestic sources as a positive spillover from becoming CCT beneficiaries Poor CCT …

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Coverage and adequacy of minimum income schemes in the European Union

Figari, Francesco; Haux, Tina; Matsaganis, Manos; … - 2010

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May there be victory : government election performance and the world's largest public-works program

Zimmermann, Laura - 2015

A number of developing country governments have introduced ambitious anti-poverty programs in recent years, but the dynamic effects of these initiatives on governments' election performance remain poorly understood. Especially in contexts with low program implementation quality, public support...

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Evaluating Social Protection Programs in Tajikistan

Son, Hyun H. - 2011

performance of the country's social protection system – essentially public transfers for the elderly and disabled – in terms of … reducing poverty, with the aim of identifying its key problems. Since the government provides such public transfers mainly as … receiving transfers from the government, while 33% of nonpoor households receive transfers. This study argues for applying a …

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Homelessness in Alberta : The Demand for Spaces in Alberta's Homeless Shelters

Kneebone, Ronald D. - 2011

Homelessness in Alberta is overwhelmingly concentrated in Calgary and Edmonton, with almost two-thirds of total provincial shelter usage in the former. Calgary also experiences much greater fluctuations in shelter use. Three interconnected economic factors — the supply of rental...

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