diff --git a/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib b/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib index 7b43a86..f413e05 100644 --- a/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib +++ b/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib @@ -13906,7 +13906,7 @@ does NOT look at specific policy interventions} usage-count-last-180-days = {0}, usage-count-since-2013 = {4}, web-of-science-categories = {Public Administration}, - keywords = {december,inequality::income,region::EU,relevant,TODO::full-text,type::minimum\_wage}, + keywords = {done::extracted,inequality::income,region::EU,relevant,type::minimum\_wage}, file = {/home/marty/Zotero/storage/P43IWBHG/Wang_Van Vliet_2016_Social Assistance and Minimum Income Benefits.pdf} } diff --git a/02-data/processed/relevant/Wang2016.yml b/02-data/processed/relevant/Wang2016.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f9e929 --- /dev/null +++ b/02-data/processed/relevant/Wang2016.yml @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +author: Wang, J., & Van Vliet, O. +year: 2016 +title: "Social Assistance and Minimum Income Benefits: Benefit Levels, Replacement Rates and Policies Across 26 Oecd Countries, 1990-2009" +publisher: European Journal of Social Security +uri: https://doi.org/10.1177/138826271601800401 +pubtype: article +discipline: economics + +country: global +period: 1990-2009 +maxlength: +targeting: implicit +group: low-income +data: World Bank CPI indicators; Penn World Table + +design: observational +method: cross-country comparative analysis +sample: 26 +unit: country +representativeness: national +causal: 0 # 0 correlation / 1 causal + +theory: +limitations: data availability necessitated indicator construction for real minimum benefits and replacement rates +observation: + - intervention: direct transfer (social assistance) + institutional: 1 + structural: 1 + agency: 0 + inequality: income + type: 0 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal + indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative + measures: real wage; replacement rate + findings: real benefit levels increased in most countries, benefit levels increasing more than consumer prices; income replacement rates mixed outcomes with decreases in some countries where real benefit levels increased + channels: bulk of increases comes from deliberate policy changes; benefit levels not linked to wages and policy changes not taking into account changes in wages + direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos + significance: # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg + +notes: +annotation: | + An observational study on the levels of social assistance benefits and wages in a national comparative study within 26 developed countries. + It finds that real minimum income benefit levels generally increased in most countries from 1990 to 2009, with only a few countries, mostly in Eastern European welfare states, showing decreases during the time frame. + The majority of changes in real benefit levels are from deliberate policy changes and the study calculates them by a comparison of the changes in benefit levels to the changes in consumer prices. + Secondly, it finds that changes for income replacement rates are more mixed, with rates decreasing even in some countries which have increasing real benefits levels. + The study suggests this is because benefit levels are in most cases not linked to wages and policy changes also do not take changes in wages into account resulting in diverging benefit levels and wages, which may lead to exacerbating inequality gaps between income groups. diff --git a/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib b/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib index 5d39c5b..1186756 100644 --- a/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib +++ b/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib @@ -14412,7 +14412,7 @@ does NOT look at specific policy interventions} usage-count-last-180-days = {0}, usage-count-since-2013 = {4}, web-of-science-categories = {Public Administration}, - keywords = {december,inequality::income,region::EU,relevant,TODO::full-text,type::minimum\_wage}, + keywords = {done::extracted,inequality::income,region::EU,relevant,type::minimum\_wage}, file = {/home/marty/Zotero/storage/P43IWBHG/Wang_Van Vliet_2016_Social Assistance and Minimum Income Benefits.pdf} } diff --git a/scoping_review.qmd b/scoping_review.qmd index 9112d41..b72c0c5 100644 --- a/scoping_review.qmd +++ b/scoping_review.qmd @@ -783,6 +783,12 @@ in each country's case the transfers to individuals reduced their poverty and we The authors thus suggest that their findings may be compatible both with an institutionalist perspective seeing poverty-eliminating benefits in the short term and with an underclass perspective which contends that nonetheless the transfers do not eliminate the deprivations members of disadvantaged groups face, while providing little evidence for generating welfare dependency proposed in a more neoclassical perspective. However, due to no long-term panel data available to fully analyse the underclass and neoclassical arguments, these findings should not be understood too generalizable. +@Wang2016 undertake an observational study on the levels of social assistance benefits and wages in a national comparative study within 26 developed countries. +It finds that real minimum income benefit levels generally increased in most countries from 1990 to 2009, with only a few countries, mostly in Eastern European welfare states, showing decreases during the time frame. +The majority of changes in real benefit levels are from deliberate policy changes and the study calculates them by a comparison of the changes in benefit levels to the changes in consumer prices. +Secondly, it finds that changes for income replacement rates are more mixed, with rates decreasing even in some countries which have increasing real benefits levels. +The study suggests this is because benefit levels are in most cases not linked to wages and policy changes also do not take changes in wages into account resulting in diverging benefit levels and wages, which may lead to exacerbating inequality gaps between income groups. + ## Financial agency @Al-Mamun2014 conduct a study on the impacts of an urban micro-finance programme in Malaysia on the economic empowerment of women.