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grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social …Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to … protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective of working-age women. Drawing on a scoping review of diverse evidence …
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social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a gender lens, to better understand the contributions of these …In July 2020, the United Republic of Tanzania gained the status of a lower-middleincome country. This came after two … working-age women. The paper draws on a scoping review of diverse secondary materials, including academic publications …
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We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … the incomes of men and women. Using microsimulation and intra-household income splitting rules, we measure the differences … in the level and composition of individual disposable incomes of men and women in eight European countries covering …
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findings of a multi-country research programme, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', to explore pathways of positive change in … women's lives, in diverse contexts, and to draw together some lessons for policy and practice. It begins with an account of … women's empowerment in development, tracing some key ideas that have shaped feminist engagement with empowerment in theory …
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This essay starts, after a short introduction on the importance and dimensions of "inclusive growth", with a brief empirical sketch on to what extent Europe has already succeeded with respect to this ambitious goal. The result is quite sobering and gives rise to the question: why is it so? The...
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An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that affect households from time to time, such as illness, employment injury, death or old age. This...
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This paper asks what governments in the EU Member States and some US states are doing to support workers on low wages. Using model family simulations, we assess the policy measures currently in place to guarantee an adequate disposable income to working families, taking into account minimum...
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The recent welfare-to-work reform requires lone parents with older children to be available for work. This article examines the likely effect of this reform and the proposed extension with regards to the employment rate of lone parents. It is argued that it will not lead to the desired increase...
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We use new migration modelling and projection techniques in order to quantify the effect of migration in the context of ageing societies in Europe over the forthcoming decades. Using new empirical results, data and projections of migration flows developed in the framework of the WWWforEUROPE...
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Forty-five years ago, the A. Philip Randolph Institute issued "The Freedom Budget," in which a program for economic transformation was proposed that included a job guarantee for everyone ready and willing to work, a guaranteed income for those unable to work or those who should not be working,...
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