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Incomes after Job-loss in the United States: From Programme Rules to Panel Data.
- Source :
- Social Policy & Administration; Dec2012, Vol. 46 Issue 7, p748-768, 21p, 8 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Welfare state studies are usually motivated by one or both of two concerns: programme effects on the incidence of poverty, and the possibility of perverse incentive effects. Most research has been comparative, using cross-national indicators from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and other international organizations. That research often contrasts the generosity of programmes in a number of European countries and the lack of it in the USA. Focusing on income transfers after job-loss, in this article we critically examine the comparative evidence on US welfare state generosity and then use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to estimate what happens to job-losers' incomes. The comparative analysis suggests conclusions more nuanced than found in much of the literature. The PSID analysis shows how the income effects of job-loss vary across job-losers and suggests that the role of unemployment compensation programmes in supporting incomes may be overstated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01445596
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social Policy & Administration
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 82898145
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00826.x