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Dépendance à l'égard de l'aide sociale et réforme de la sécurité du revenu

Fortin, Bernard - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1998

L'objectif principal de cet article est d'analyser les facteurs qui influencent la dynamique des séjours à l'aide sociale des ménages. On distingue quatre ensembles de variables: les variables qui affectent les conditions de travail ainsi que les préférences des ménages; les variables...

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Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil

Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco; Menéndez, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

This paper proposes a measure of the contribution of unequal opportunities to earnings inequality. Drawing on the distinction between ‘circumstance’ and ‘effort’ variables in John Roemer’s work on equality of opportunity, we associate inequality of opportunities with five observed...

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Participation in Social Programs by Consumers and Companies

Hauge, Janice A.; Jamison, Mark A.; Jewell, R. Todd - In: Public Finance Review 35 (2007) 5, pp. 606-625

Lifeline is a unique nationwide public assistance program created by the Federal Communications Commission to provide price discounts to low-income telephone subscribers. Recently there has been concern that program participation rates are low and that there is great variation in participation...

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Relationship break-down and the economic welfare of Australian mothers and their children

Gray, Matthew; Chapman, Bruce - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 4, pp. 253-277

This paper provides estimates of the effects of divorce on the lifetime incomes of mothers. This is an issue that is not well explored in most countries, and has been essentially untouched empirically in the Australian context. The paper extends the existing literature, which has generally...

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An Agency Model of Welfare and Disability Assistance

Boadway, Robin; Marceau, Nicolas; Sato, Motohiro - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 1997

Welfare programs including disability benefits have been considered as an efficient way of delivering transfers to the … administration cost of welfare programs and by indivisibilities that may exist in labor supply. Our ultimate objective is to … contribute to the debate concerning transferring income to the poor using welfare programs versus negative income tax systems …

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Micro Interventions for Poverty Alleviation: The Philippine Case

Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Sanchez-Robielos, Maria Teresa - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1996

This paper provides a review of frameworks for analyzing poverty alleviation initiatives. The principles in these frameworks were used to guide the review of five micro-intervention programs/projects for poverty alleviation. The principles that can be useful in the design of future programs of...

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Micro Interventions for Poverty Alleviation: The Philippine Case

Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Sanchez-Robielos, Maria Teresa - 1996

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The Normative Analysis of Tagging Revisited: Dealing with Stigmatization

Jacquet, Laurence; Linden, Bruno Van der - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 62 (2006) 2, pp. 168-198

Should income transfers be conditional upon personal characteristics of the potential recipients (so-called tagging), or should they only be tied to reported incomes? A still widespread social norm consists in requiring that individuals (of working age) support themselves and their families....

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Childhood Abuse and Welfare Use

Smith, Mark - In: Review of Economics of the Household 3 (2005) 4, pp. 435-452

Policies aimed at reducing welfare use focus solely on adults, yet welfare users very often report experiences of childhood abuse. Such abuse is known to have long-term psychological effects and may set the stage for later welfare use. This study uses a random sample of poor women to determine...

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Towards a new welfare system in Europe

Paci, Massimo - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2004) 1

This paper –which was delivered as “Lecture 2003” of the Associazione Manlio Rossi Doria - begins with an investigation into the crisis of the “Fordist welfare system” and its three main social institutions: the nuclear family, the large firm, and the “Welfare State”. These...

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