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Welfare systems and their complexity
Tanzi, Vito - In: Ėkonomičeskaja politika 13 (2018) 5, pp. 50-65
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Long-term effects of PROSPERA on welfare
Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto; Barnard, Cristina; De … - 2019
The long-term effects of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, on poor households are of great interest to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original participant households and their offspring, about 20 years after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114351
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Welfare harms its ostensible beneficiaries
Fast, Richard; O'Brien, Jessica; Block, Walter - In: Economics, management and financial markets 12 (2017) 3, pp. 51-63
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011885847
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Old, sick, alone, and poor : a welfare analysis of old-age social insurance programmes
Braun, R. Anton; Kopecky, Karen A.; Koreshkova, Tatyana - In: The review of economic studies 84 (2017) 2, pp. 580-612
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751724
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Replicator Evolution of Welfare Stigma : Welfare Fraud vs. Incomplete Take-Up
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2021
There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible people receive welfare benefits, and incomplete take-up, whereby eligible poor people are reluctant to claim welfare benefits. This study investigates both of these opposing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315183
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The Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff in Welfare State Economies
Bohacek, Radim - 2009
This paper studies the effects of different levels of social insurance on efficiency and distribution of resources in a … consumption levels (social insurance). I show that the efficiency-equality tradeoff associated with welfare state economies does … not hold. Efficiency decreases and equality rises as the minimal guaranteed consumption increases from zero to around one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200437
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The Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff in Welfare State Economies
Bohacek, Radim - 2002
This paper studies the effects of different levels of social insurance on efficiency and distribution of resources in a … consumption levels (social insurance). I show that the efficiency-equality tradeoff associated with welfare state economies does … not hold. Efficiency decreases and equality rises as the minimal guaranteed consumption increases from zero to around one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113945
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Bismarck versus Beveridge : which unemployment compensation system is more prone to labor market shocks?
Beissinger, Thomas; Büsse, Oliver - 2001
Based on a model with imperfectly competitive labor and product markets the real consequences of labor market shocks for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive feature of the analysis is the comparison of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403752
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Welfare benefit reforms and employment
Aloi, Marta; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Leite-Monteiro, Manuel - 2017
We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment benefits in favour of income subsidies (social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624217
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Social security and employment
Bekemans, Léonce (contributor); Rubery, Jill (contributor) - 1983
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000328133