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Should income be taken for granted as a sole driver of welfare? Bayesian insight on the relevance of non-income drivers of welfare
Wisniewski, Tomasz Piotr - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 54 (2018) 1, pp. 58-68
The paper consists of a discussion on the relevance of non-income drivers of welfare. This discussion is based on a … subjective Bayesian reasoning, where welfare perceptions are subjectively rational decisions of individuals, who are, as author … suggests, the ultimate decision-makers in respect of what welfare actually means for them. The objective of the paper is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015192081
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Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007 through 2013
Mahrt, Kristi; Nanivazo, Malokele - 2015
growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied … do not indicate broad-based welfare advancement at the national, urban, or rural levels, they do suggest progress within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440675
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Surveying Romanian Migrants in Italy Before and After the EU Accession: Migration Plans, Labour Market Features and Social Inclusion
Mara, Isilda - 2012
This report describes the migration patterns of Romanian migrants in Italy before and after the accession of Romania into the European Union (EU). The findings and the main results presented throughout the report were collected by carrying out a survey in three main cities of Italy Milan, Turin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100114
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Families, Taxes and the Welfare System
Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013
discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare reform, and then conclude by analyzing the effectiveness of the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319533
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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? Evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data
Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
temporarily lowers receipt of cash assistance (TANF) by 63 percent, the net impact on total income is still positive and large: In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418275
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Privatizing Disability Insurance
Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022
sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of … welfare calculations. We find that observed willingness-to-pay of many individuals is low, such that providing DI partly via a … private insurance market with choice improves welfare. However, we show that distributional concerns as well as individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426428
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Privatizing Disability Insurance
Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022
sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of … welfare calculations. We find that observed willingness-to-pay of many individuals is low, such that providing DI partly via a … private insurance market with choice improves welfare. However, we show that distributional concerns as well as individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427765
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Privatizing disability insurance
Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022
sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of … welfare calculations. We find that observed willingness-to-pay of many individuals is low, such that providing DI partly via a … private insurance market with choice improves welfare. However, we show that distributional concerns as well as individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480168
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Privatizing disability insurance
Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022
sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of … welfare calculations. We find that observed willingness-to-pay of many individuals is low, such that providing coverage partly … via a private DI market improves welfare. However, we show that distributional concerns as well as individual risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175973
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Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination
Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alex; … - 2022
A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351959