Volume 39
Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence
Outline
Social protection systems are intended to support households in financial difficulties, a role that has been underlined during the recent Great Recession in many countries around the world. This volume presents new results on the dynamics of social assistance, minimum-income and related out-of-work benefits in a range of different country contexts. It contains eight original articles, which shed light on benefit spell durations, the movements into and out of receipt of safety net benefits, the individual or family characteristics associated with these movements, the extent of state dependence or ‘scarring’, and the interaction of various welfare programs. The results establish an evidence base for an informed policy debate in a range of OECD countries. They also provide methodological background for future work on benefit receipt patterns.
Check AccessChapters
- Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Binary Response Panel Data Models: Empirical Evidence Using Alternative Approaches
- The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain
- State Dependence in Social Assistance Receipt in Canada
- State Dependence in Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany Before and After the Hartz Reforms
- How Do Exit Rates from Social Assistance Benefit in Belgium Vary with Individual and Local Agency Characteristics?
- The Effects of Mandatory Activation on Welfare Entry and Exit Rates
- The Impact of Temporary Assistance Programs on Disability Rolls and Re-employment
- What Impact does Old-age Pension Receipt Have on the Use of Public Assistance Programs Among the Elderly?
- Volume Details
- Editors Stéphane Carcillo, Herwig Immervoll, Stephen P. Jenkins, Sebastian Königs, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
- Publication date 6 August 2014
- ISBN 978-1-78190-936-2
- ISSN 0147-9121
- Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
- doi 10.1108/rlec