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Liquidity Constraints, Spillovers, and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program

Ribas, Rafael P. - 2019

This paper exploits a welfare programme in Brazil to investigate the role of financial constraints, in opposition to general equilibrium mechanisms, in explaining entrepreneurship. A method for decomposing its impact into direct and indirect effects is presented. Instead of requiring two-level...

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Non-Take-Up of Means-Tested Social Benefits in Germany

Harnisch, Michelle - 2019

This paper presents non-take-up rates of benefits from the German Income Support for Job Seekers scheme, called Unemployment Benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II). Eligibility to these benefits is simulated by applying a microsimulation model based on data from the Socio-economic Panel for the years...

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Liquidity Constraint vs. Eligibility Constraint : Cash Transfers and Labor Supply in Rural and Urban Areas

Ribas, Rafael P. - 2018

This paper contributes to the literature on welfare programs by estimating the impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) on labor supply in Brazil. Unlike other CCT programs that have been studied, Bolsa Família is a widespread program that have taken place not only in rural and isolated...

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Social Transfers and Women's Labour Supply in Kyrgyzstan

Barrientos, Armando - 2015

The paper examines social transfers and their influence on the labour supply of women in Kyrgyzstan. Social transfers in cash and in kind in place in Kyrgyzstan absorbed 5.7% of GDP in 2012. They include subsidies to social insurance pensioners, transfers to population groups considered...

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Income Taxation, Transfers and Labour Supply at the Extensive Margin

Benczur, Peter - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of income taxation and transfers on labour supply at the extensive margin, i.e., the labour force participation. We extend existing structural form methodologies by considering the effect of both taxes and transfers. Non-labour income contains the (hypothetical)...

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'I Don't Agree with Giving Cash' : A Survey Experiment Examining Support for Public Assistance

Campbell, Colin - 2015

Existing sociological research on support for anti-poverty programs largely focuses on broad categories of welfare or assistance to the poor rather than particular types of transfers. Using an experimental survey design and mixed methods research, we examine whether support for anti-poverty...

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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers

Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021

We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a staggered fashion, from 2003 to 2010. Using...

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Income Assistance in British Columbia : Reforms Along Basic Income Lines

Petit, Gillian; Tedds, Lindsay M. - 2021

design features. It is also associated with a large amount of stigma and does not foster the financial stability and …; caregiving for ill, disabled, or elderly family members; volunteering), not only because of the stigma associated with the …

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Behavioural and Welfare Effects of Basic Income Policies : A Simulation for European Countries

Colombino, Ugo - 2009

We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue, the...

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Replicator Evolution of Welfare Stigma : Welfare Fraud vs. Incomplete Take-Up

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2021

the tax-payer resentment view welfare stigma suggested by Besley and Coate (1992). We find multiple stable equilibria in … coexistence of welfare fraud and incomplete take-up is unstable in the model of statistical discrimination view welfare stigma …, but it is stable in the model of the tax-payer resentment view welfare stigma. This difference arises from the different …

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