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A minimum income guarantee amidst joblessness & vulnerability : a design for income transfers post-Covid 19 and beyond

Mehrotra, Santosh K.; Rajagopalan, Anjana; Kumar, … - 2020

Amidst the bleak picture of increasing joblessness and indebtedness presented by the National Sample Survey's employment surveys and debt surveys, a minimum standard of living for the nation's poor seems to be under threat. In response to this, recent schemes inspired by the Universal Basic...

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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation

Verme, Paolo - 2008

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

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The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes

Cribb, Jonathan; Giupponi, Giulia; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021

We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...

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Re-thinking social protection : from poverty alleviation to building resilience in middle-income households

Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro; Hoffmann, Bridget; … - 2023

We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...

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