This paper aims at presenting an assessment of welfare reforms under a framework of program heterogeneity and alternative measures of success. We focus on a specific welfare program –Madrid’s Ingreso Madrileño de Integración (IMI)– which comprises heterogeneous subprograms. We test...

Non-health related policies may have consequences for health that are more important than the outcomes they were originally designed to produce. In this paper we evaluate the effects of welfare-to-work programs (WTW) on physical and mental health status and a variety of health behaviors. The...

. The question of wether or not a high percentage of recipients return to welfare programmes has attracted great attention from economists and policymakers. Using data gathered for the minimum income programme of the Madrid Government, this paper aims to broach various questions arising from the...

. Este trabajo evalúa los cambios en las diferencias en los niveles de desigualdad y bienestar entre las Comunidades Autónomas españolas, tomando como referencia un extenso intervalo temporal (1973-2000). Utilizando los microdatos de las EPFs estructurales y la ECPF-2000 longitudinal...

This paper aims at reviewing some of the main changes in poverty and other measures of economic vulnerability in Spain paying special emphasis to large differences across territories. It also reviews some of the changes in welfare programs as a result of increasing poverty trends providing a...

. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar en qué medida los tratamientos diferenciados otorgados por el IRPF español a las distintas fuentes de renta (trabajo personal, capital y actividades empresariales y profesionales), entre 1992 y 1998, han contribuido a su capacidad redistributiva....

This paper asses the scope of income mobility from a comparative perspective and explores if there is an observable relationship with inequality. More specifically, the main hypotheses to be tested are the existence of notable differences in mobility between the USA and the European Union which...

Este artículo trata de sistematizar las diferentes opciones disponibles para la medición de la movilidad de ingresos. En un primer apartado se introduce dicho concepto, con una especial atención a las diferencias y relaciones con la desigualdad y el crecimiento económico. Posteriormente, se...

The main aim of this article is to define a multidimensional housing deprivation index and identify the main determining characteristics of this phenomenon, using Spain as reference. A latent variable model is used in order to overcome some of the traditional difficulties encountered in...