Marty Oehme
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- for weak evidence, + for substantiated evidence, ++ for strong evidence. Currently separates between internal and external, and uses the bins: 0.0-2.9 for weak 3.0-5.9 for substantiated 6.0-... for strong evidence
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| 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;SilveriaNeto2011 | |
| 6 | paid leave | evidence for significant increase in rtw after childbirth | esp. disadvantaged women benefit due to no prior employer-funded leave | Broadway2020;Dustmann2012;Davies2022 |
| 7 | 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 | |
| 8 | 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 | |
| 9 | collective bargaining | evidence for decreased income inequality with strong unionisation | stronger collective political power vector enables more equal redistributive policies | Alexiou2023;Cardinaleschi2015 |
| 10 | 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 | |
| 11 | protective environmental policies | evidence for decrease in spatial inequality | increased employment probability through large-scale rural energy projects | Kuriyama2021 |
| 12 | mixed evidence for increase of existing inequalities | elite policy capture can exacerbate existing social exclusion & disadvantages | Kuriyama2021;Stock2021 | |
| 13 | workfare programmes | evidence for decrease of vertical inequality | Whitworth2021;Li2022 | |
| 14 | evidence for possibility of increased spatial inequalities | bad targeting increases deprivations for already job-deprived areas | Whitworth2021 | |
| 15 | 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 | |
| 16 | social protection | evidence for conditional cash transfers producing short- and long-term inequality reduction | production of short-term cash influx | Debowicz2014 |
| 17 | mixed evidence for childcare subsidies decreasing gender inequalities | lifting credit constraints greater effect on low-income households | Hardoy2015;Debowicz2014 | |
| 18 | evidence for stagnating income replacement rates exacerbating existing vertical inequalities | benefit levels unlinked from wages can widen division between income groups | Wang2016 | |
| 19 | healthcare subsidy impacts strongly dependent on correct targeting | dependence on non-participation in labour market may generate benefit trap | Carstens2018 |