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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth
Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
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Hacia nuevas políticas sociales en América Latina : crecimiento, clases medias y derechos sociales
Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (2005) 87, pp. 45-60
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El estado y la pobreza en Costa Rica
Taylor-Dormond, Marvin - In: Revista CEPAL (1991), pp. 133-150
El liberalismo vigente en America Latina puede inducir a confiar a la mano invisible del mercado la tarea redistributiva. En el presente articulo se intenta contribuir al acervo de conocimientos sobre el papel del estado en materia de transferencia de recursos y atencion a los pobres en Costa...
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Crecimiento, justicia distributiva y política social
Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 31-44
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Distribucion del ingreso, pobreza y gasto social en America Latina
Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 7-14
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Naturaleza y selectividad de la política social
Sojo, Ana - In: Revista CEPAL (1990), pp. 183-199
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What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure
Schoeni, Robert F. - 2000
, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were …
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The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court : Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program
Cassidy, Michael T.; Currie, Janet M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
housing court to tenants with income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guideline. We find that tenants who gain …
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Poverty Among the Elderly : Where are the Holes in the Safety Net?
Boskin, Michael J. - 1986
Using data from the longitudinal retirement history survey (RHS), we examine the economic status of the cohort of the elderly who were 68 -73 years old by 1979 to see who fell through the safety net in the 1970s. Our most important finding is that a non-trivial fraction of the elderly in the...
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Poverty in America : Is Welfare the Answer or the Problem?
Ellwood, David T. - 1985
This paper reviews the current policies for fighting poverty and explores the impact they have had. We begin by … reviewing trends in poverty, poverty spending and economic performance. It is immediately apparent that economic performance is … the dominant determinant of the measured poverty rate over the past two decades. Government assistance programs expanded …
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