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

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1area of policyfindingschannelsstudies
2minimum wagemixed evidence for short-/medium-term income inequality impactscan lead to income compression at higher-earner endsWong2019;Sotomayor2021;Alinaghi2020;Gilbert2001
3some evidence for long-term inequality decreasejob loss offsets through higher wagesSotomayor2021;Chao2022;SilveiraNeto2011
4bad targeting can exacerbate existing inequalitiesnegative effect on women's hours worked if strong household labour divisionsAlinaghi2020;Wong2019;Militaru2019
5potential impact larger for single parents, rural/disadvantaged locationswomen more affected if they make up large share of low-wage earnersAlinaghi2020;Gilbert2001;SilveiraNeto2011
6labour regulationmixed evidence for effects of labour regulation on income inequality with lacking institutional capabilities no effective targeting possibleAdams2015;Broadway2020;Davies2022;Dustmann2012
7paid leaveevidence for significant increase in rtw after childbirthesp. disadvantaged women benefit due to no prior employer-funded leaveBroadway2020;Dustmann2012;Davies2022
8some evidence for positive rtw effects to occur with medium-/long-term time delayshort-term exit but no long-term increase to hiring pattern discriminationBroadway2020;Dustmann2012
9mixed evidence for fixed-/short-term contracts counter-acting effect on rtwfixed-term contracts often insufficiently covered by otherwise applicable labour regulationDavies2022;Mun2018
10collective bargainingevidence for decreased income inequality with strong unionisationstronger collective political power vector enables more equal redistributive policiesAlexiou2023;Cardinaleschi2019
11marginal evidence for increased income/representation of women/minorities in workforce/managementinternal heterogeneity due to predominantly affecting median part of wage distributionFerguson2015;Ahumada2023
12workfare programmesevidence for decrease of vertical inequalityWhitworth2021;Li2022
13evidence for possibility of increased spatial inequalitiesbad targeting increases deprivations for already job-deprived areasWhitworth2021
14evidence for effective outcomes dependent on on prior material equalitiesprior inequalities such as land ownership can lead to political capture and less effective policiesLi2022
15social protectionevidence for conditional cash transfers producing short- and long-term inequality reductionproduction of short-term cash influxDebowicz2014;Standing2015
16mixed evidence for childcare subsidies decreasing gender inequalitieslifting credit constraints greater effect on low-income householdsHardoy2015;Debowicz2014;Clark2019;Hojman2019
17evidence for stagnating income replacement rates exacerbating existing vertical inequalitiesbenefit levels unlinked from wages can widen division between income groupsWang2016
18healthcare subsidy impacts strongly dependent on correct targetingdependence on non-participation in labour market may generate benefit trapCarstens2018