Welfare Benefit in UK Law
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Comparative Welfare State Analysis with Survey-Based Benefit: Recipiency Data: The ‘Dependent Variable Problem’ Revisited
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the ‘dependent variable problem’ in comparative welfare state analysis, by focusing on ‘benefit recipiency’ as a hitherto largely neglected type of in...
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Is Welfare Dependency Inherited? Estimating Causal Welfare Transmission Effects Using Swedish Sibling Data
This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up ...... ... Section 5 concludes. 2. DATA AND THE SWEDISH WELFARE BENEFIT SYSTEM Wel far e be ne ts in Sweden are provided by the municipal ities to households who are not able to support themselves. Welfare bene ... ...
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The Universal Welfare State: Theory and the Case of Sweden
In the existing literature on welfare state typologies, the concept of the universal welfare state is not defined precisely enough to allow for comparisons of universality over time and between cou...... ... Classifying Welfare Programs According to Two Types of Universality Income universal Income selective Group selective Group universal Child benefit Demogrant Social assistance Housing benefit Note: Child benefit is group selective (only families with children under 18 are eligible) but income ... ...
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How terrorists exploit gaps in US anti‐money laundering laws to secrete plunder
Shows how terrorists finance their operations from crimes like immigration benefit fraud, cigarette smuggling, kidnapping and drug trafficking, and also petty crimes like benefit card theft, identi...... ... proceeds.For example, the terrorist who fraudulently acquiresa welfare bene®t cheque by assuming a false identityfaces the same obstacle any ... ...
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Protecting the Bottom Line
The use of Employee Assistance Programmes in the UK has seen a marked upturn in the past year. Four main types of organisation use these programmes: those which already have them in the USA, and th...... ... group who decides to put in an EAP is doing so for the employees' benefit and is likely to evaluate the programme differently from the other three ... First, they do provide a significant welfare benefit to employees and their families, and British job applicants are ... ...
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Measurement Validity in Comparative Welfare State Research: The Case of Measuring Welfare State Generosity
Examining the generosity of welfare states and individual benefit schemes is a classical task in comparative welfare state studies. Three types of welfare states can be discerned based, in part, on...... ... BENEFIT GENEROSITY IN COMPARATIVE WELFARE STATE RESEARCH ... In broad terms, there are two types of measures on benefi t generosity, namely ... ...
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Decentralization of the French welfare state: from ‘big bang’ to ‘muddling through’
This article analyses the decentralization of the French welfare state focusing on the transfer of the Revenu minimum d’insertion (RMI) welfare benefit to the departments in 2003 and 2004. We map a...... ... analyses the decentralization of the French welfare state focusing on the transfer of the Revenu minimum d’insertion (RMI) welfare benefit to the departments in 2003 and 2004. We map and explain the effects of the reform on the system and performance of the subnational provision of ... ...
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New Zealand's Financial Assistance for Poor Children: Are Work Incentives the Answer?
European countries have been concerned with reforming the labour market and promoting ‘employability’ and are now being asked to set out plans to eliminate child poverty and social exclusion. The e...... ... market exibility was promoted in the early 1990s, assisted by welfare bene t cuts. Family assistance was allowed to fall in real terms, while ... ...
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New Zealand's Financial Assistance for Poor Children: Are Work Incentives the Answer?
European countries have been concerned with reforming the labour market and promoting ‘employability’ and are now being asked to set out plans to eliminate child poverty and social exclusion. The e...... ... exibility was promoted in the early 1990s, assisted by welfare bene t cu ts. Fa mil y assi stanc e was allo wed t o fal l in r eal t ... ...
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Regulating the cross‐border movement of prepaid cards
Purpose: The term “prepaid card” refers to the pre‐payment of value process, i.e. pay now and extract value later, and describes most of the prepaid/stored value products available today. These car...... ... payments, cross-border remittances, andgovernment assistance or welfare benefit programs. However, the same attributes that makeopen-system ... ...
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