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Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mok, Wallace K C - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

disability and its association with a wide range of outcomes, including earnings, income, and consumption. We then employ some of …. Six of our findings stand out. First, disability rates are high. We divide the disabled along two dimensions based on the … and severe disability. Second, the economic consequences of disability are frequently profound. Ten years after disability …

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Great expectations, but how to achieve them? Explaining patterns of inequality in childcare use across 31 developed countries

Van Lancker, Wim; Ghysels, Joris - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2013

Childcare services are increasingly regarded as a major policy lever to mitigate social inequalities. Such services are believed to be effective in reducing poverty and increasing employment rates by allowing both parents to engage in paid employment, as well as to benefit the cognitive and...

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La incidencia del gasto social y los impuestos en el Perú.

Jaramillo, Miguel; Sparrow, Bárbara - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) - 2013

Mejorar la efectividad de la política fiscal respecto a la redistribución y la reducción de la pobreza es clave para el desarrollo equitativo del Perú. Estudios recientes sugieren que las transferencias públicas y las donaciones son responsables de solo un décimo de la disminución de la...

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Zum politischen Machtwechsel in Griechenland. Die Parlamentswahlen von Januar 2015 aus einem kritischen Blickwinkel

Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The Greek parliamentary elections in January .2015 led to a foreseeable change in government. The coalition government between the conservative Nea Dimokratia and of the socialist PASOK, become replaced. by a coalition government between the left wing coalition party SYRIZA and the extreme...

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime

Dave, Dhaval M.; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We investigate the effects of broad-based work incentives on female crime by exploiting the welfare reform legislation of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that welfare reform decreased female property crime arrests by...

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Social Transfers and Inequality During the Polish Transition

Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

In general, most countries of the former Eastern bloc have experienced poor growth performance and large increases in income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been Poland, which has outstripped other transition...

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A Political Economy Perspective on Redistribution and Growth in Transition

Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Poland undertook a rapid and decisive set of political and economic reforms starting in 1989-90, a period that has become known as the big bang. A widely held view is that, in all of the transition economies, the economic upheaval associated with the process of transition has led to substantial...

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The Economy-wide Impacts of the South African Child Support Grant: a Micro-Simulation-Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Tiberti, Luca; Maisonnave, Hélène; Chitiga, Margaret; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013

We examine the economy-wide impact of the child support grant (CSG) on the South African economy using a bottom-up/top-down approach. This allows us to estimate the potential effects on households’ welfare and on the economy following a change in the CSG. Three simulations are presented, in...

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Occupational structures, migration, religion and poor relief in nineteenth century urban Ireland

Cousins, Mel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Patterns of poor relief varied greatly amongst nineteenth century Irish cities. To date, however, there has been little examination of the reasons behind these divergences. One possible factor is the divergent occupational and demographic structures of these cities – ranging from the dramatic...

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Optimal Universal and Categorical Benefits with Classification Errors and Imperfect Enforcement

Slack, Sean; Ulph, David - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2014

We determine the optimal combination of a universal benefit, ????, and categorical benefit, ????, for an economy in which individuals differ in both their ability to work – modelled as an exogenous zero quantity constraint on labour supply – and, conditional on being able to work, their...

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