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Minimum income protection in the austerity tide
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-20
Scholarly literature is inconclusive on how economic crises impact on minimum income protection. Earlier studies found small increases in the generosity of safety nets at the onset of the crisis. Yet an increased focus on budget austerity substantially altered the social policy context. This...
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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282192
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Do Europe's Minimum Income Schemes Provide Adequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis and How, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416941
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Singling out the truly needy: The role of asset testing in European minimum income schemes
Marchal, Sarah; Kuypers, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2020
Means-tested transfer schemes in Europe and elsewhere tend to include not only income tests but also asset tests of various sorts. The role of asset tests in minimum income protection provisions has been extensively researched in the Anglo-Saxon context. Far fewer authors have assessed the role...
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Singling out the truly needy : the role of asset testing in European minimum income schemes
Marchal, Sarah; Kuypers, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2020
Means-tested transfer schemes in Europe and elsewhere tend to include not only income tests but also asset tests of various sorts. The role of asset tests in minimum income protection provisions has been extensively researched in the Anglo-Saxon context. Far fewer authors have assessed the role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210725
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Trends and convergence of Europe’s minimum income schemes
Van Mechelen, Natascha; Marchal, Sarah - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2013
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on whether or not European welfare states converge by assessing trends and patterns of convergence and divergence of European minimum income schemes in the period 1992/2001-2012. We expand on previous studies on convergence of social assistance schemes...
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A new kid in town? Active inclusion in European minimum income schemes
Marchal, Sarah; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2014
This paper assesses the current variation in activation strategies directed towards able-bodied persons of working age who rely on a minimum income guarantee in 20 EU Member states. First, we argue that the Active Inclusion notion developed by the European Commission in its 2008 Recommendation...
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Assessment of social protection for families with children in the EU member states
Mistre, Baiba; Leibus, Inguna; Mazure, Gunita - In: Contemporary economics 18 (2024) 2, pp. 210-222
The extent of social protection provided to families with children varies according to each country's unique economic, social, and demographic conditions. The most important factors for assessing social protection were studied and identified by means of the multivariate statistical analysis...
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
couples who have low earnings. Recent reforms to strengthen work incentives have altered the in-work tax credits, rather than … the benefit system, and recent reforms to the out-of-work benefits have involved toughening and extending job …-search requirements. The two main political parties seem to agree that future reforms will involve more conditionality, a greater use of …
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The new European strategy for growth and jobs (Europe 2020): Goals, instruments to monitor its implementation, institutional resources, implementation recommendation
Dinga, Ene; Băltăreţu, Camelia; Prelipcean, Gabriela - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313012