wow-inequalities/02-data/supplementary/findings-institutional.csv

1	area of policy	findings	channels	studies
2	minimum wage	mixed evidence for short-/medium-term income inequality impacts	can lead to income compression at higher-earner ends	Wong2019;Sotomayor2021;Alinaghi2020;Gilbert2001
3		some evidence for long-term inequality decrease	job loss offsets through higher wages	Sotomayor2021;Chao2022;SilveiraNeto2011
4		bad targeting can exacerbate existing inequalities	negative effect on women's hours worked if strong household labour divisions	Alinaghi2020;Wong2019;Militaru2019
5		potential impact larger for single parents, rural/disadvantaged locations	women more affected if they make up large share of low-wage earners	Alinaghi2020;Gilbert2001;SilveiraNeto2011
6	labour regulation	mixed evidence for effects of labour regulation on income inequality	with lacking institutional capabilities no effective targeting possible	Adams2015;Broadway2020;Davies2022;Dustmann2012
7	paid leave	evidence for significant increase in rtw after childbirth	esp. disadvantaged women benefit due to no prior employer-funded leave	Broadway2020;Dustmann2012;Davies2022
8		some evidence for positive rtw effects to occur with medium-/long-term time delay	short-term exit but no long-term increase to hiring pattern discrimination	Broadway2020;Dustmann2012
9		mixed evidence for fixed-/short-term contracts counter-acting effect on rtw	fixed-term contracts often insufficiently covered by otherwise applicable labour regulation	Davies2022;Mun2018
10	collective bargaining	evidence for decreased income inequality with strong unionisation	stronger collective political power vector enables more equal redistributive policies	Alexiou2023;Cardinaleschi2019
11		marginal evidence for increased income/representation of women/minorities in workforce/management	internal heterogeneity due to predominantly affecting median part of wage distribution	Ferguson2015;Ahumada2023
12	workfare programmes	evidence for decrease of vertical inequality		Whitworth2021;Li2022
13		evidence for possibility of increased spatial inequalities	bad targeting increases deprivations for already job-deprived areas	Whitworth2021
14		evidence for effective outcomes dependent on on prior material equalities	prior inequalities such as land ownership can lead to political capture and less effective policies	Li2022
15	social protection	evidence for conditional cash transfers producing short- and long-term inequality reduction	production of short-term cash influx	Debowicz2014;Standing2015
16		mixed evidence for childcare subsidies decreasing gender inequalities	lifting credit constraints greater effect on low-income households	Hardoy2015;Debowicz2014;Clark2019;Hojman2019
17		evidence for stagnating income replacement rates exacerbating existing vertical inequalities	benefit levels unlinked from wages can widen division between income groups	Wang2016
18		healthcare subsidy impacts strongly dependent on correct targeting	dependence on non-participation in labour market may generate benefit trap	Carstens2018