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The new "minimum vital income" in Spain : distributional and poverty effects in the presence and absence of regional minimum income schemes

Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja - 2020

The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum … incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across … Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all …

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The effectiveness of Minimum Income schemes in the EU

Almeida, Vanda; De Poli, Silvia; Hernández, Adrian - 2022

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The effectiveness of Minimum Income schemes in the EU

Almeida, Vanda; De Poli, Silvia; Hernández, Adrian - 2022

Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … their degree of coverage and adequacy, their poverty-alleviating effects and their overall cost. Finally, we explore the …

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Using internal replication to establish a treatment effect

Johansson, Per - 2006

In many cases assignment to a treatment may affect concomitant variables. I show how a concomitant variable can be used to corroborate evidence from an observational study. In the observational study two types of training programs are compared. One program is part of regular Swedish labor market...

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When work is not enough : state and federal policies to support needy workers

Stoker, Robert Phillip; Wilson, Laura Ann - 2006

"Examines a broad range of state and federal programs providing cash or in-kind benefits to low-wage workers, low-income families, and families making the transition from welfare to work to assess the ability of the work support system to lead to self-sufficiency"--Provided by publisher

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When work is not enough : state and federal policies to support needy workers

Stoker, Robert Phillip; Wilson, Laura Ann - 2006

Efforts to promote work have been the centerpiece of welfare reform over the past ten years. In signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, President Bill Clinton pledged that the sweeping overhaul would "end welfare as we know it" by promoting work,...

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Do public subsidies add to private sector R&D activity? : microeconometric evidence for regional innovation policy in East Germany

Reinkowski, Janina; Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; … - 2010 - First version: January 2010; this version: March 2010, draft

We analyse the effect of public Research and Development (R&D) subsidies on private sector innovativeness for a cross-section of East German firms applying different matching estimations, which are primary based on an estimate of a propensity score. To do so, we use a until now unexplored...

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Treatment evaluation in the presence of sample selection

Huber, Martin - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2009

Sample selection and attrition are inherent in a range of treatment evaluation problems such as the estimation of the returns to schooling or training. Conventional estimators tackling selection bias typically rely on restrictive functional form assumptions that are unlikely to hold in reality....

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THE IMPACT OF TRAINING PROGRAMMES ON WAGES IN FRANCE: AN EVALUATION OF THE “QUALIFYING CONTRACT” USING PROPENSITY SCORES.

Costa, Sofia Pessoa e; Robin, Stéphane - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2007

This paper evaluates the impact of a widely-used French training programme for youth on earnings. This programme is designed to increase labour market experience and education, validated by a formal diploma. It is not sure, however, whether this diploma and a similar diploma acquired through...

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Salaire minimum et bas revenus : comment concilier justice sociale et efficacité économique? ; rapport

Cahuc, Pierre (contributor); Cette, Gilbert (contributor); … - 2008

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