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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK’s approach to social insurance is “basic security”, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high...

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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy

Brugiavini, Agar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...

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Welfare reform in the UK: 1997–2007

Brewer, Mike - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2008

This paper presents a tour of welfare reforms in the UK since the last change of government, summarising the most important changes in active labour market policies (ALMPS), and in measures intended to strengthen financial incentives to work. It argues that developments in the UK’s active...

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Effects of work requirements on welfare migration

Edmark, Karin - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

This study tests for a migration response to the implementation of stricter rules for welfare benefit receipt, in the form of mandatory participation in activation programs for welfare recipients, in Stockholm town districts. The hypothesis is that welfare benefit prone individuals will choose...

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Does early child care help or hurt childrens's development?

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...

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Who cares about the democratic mandate of education? A text analysis of the Swedish secondary education reform of 2009

Adman, Per - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

For several decades after WWII, Swedish education reforms were justified extensively based on democratic and equality arguments. The Social Democrats, the party in governing power during this era, considered a uniform education system crucial to their endeavors towards a greater democracy and...

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Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?

de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the elderly, a mechanism suggested in the OECD strategy for “active ageing” and the “Lisbon strategy” of the EU. Using register data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from...

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Getting real about inequality : evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru

Lopez, J. Humberto - 2006

explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate … generally exceed the actual changes in real inequality. These results are robust to correcting for quality change bias in the …

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Investment climate and international integration

Taye Mengistae - 2004

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Fiscal responsibility laws for subnational discipline : the Latin American experience

Webb, Steven Benjamin - 2004

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