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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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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru

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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Do conditional cash transfers (CCT) raise educational attainment? : a case study of Juntos in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2017

This paper empirically investigates the impacts of Peru's Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme JUNTOS upon educational outcomes of beneficiary children. The findings associate Juntos participation with higher overall enrolment rates and grades of schooling for children aged 12 to 18 years....

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Minimum wages and poverty

Addison, John T. - 1998

employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …

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Group lending or individual lending? : evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; … - 2014

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...

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