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Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

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Welfare policy and the distribution of hours of work

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Pissaridēs, Christophoros A. - 2009

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Social image concerns and welfare take-up

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2018

Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how...

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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems

Kraus, Margit - 2000

This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...

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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance

Hölsch, Katja - 2003

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The use of monetary policy in Botswana, in good times and bad

Harvey, Charles - 1985

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Brazilian social policy : outcomes and dilemmas

Matijascic, Milko - 2019

Since redemocratization in 1985, Brazil’s system of social protection became more focused on the neediest while at the same time emphasizing universal access, especially focusing education and healthcare. In a traditional context of severe inequality, the sub-national units of government...

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Unemployment benefits and basic income : economic performance, income inequality and social welfare

Rillaers, Alexandra - 2000

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Active citizen's income, unconditional income and participation under imperfect competition : a normative analysis

Van der Linden, Bruno - 1999

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