A Social Safety Net for the Impact of Technical Change:An Evaluation of the Myers Committee's Adjustment Assistance Proposal

1981 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. CASSING ◽  
A. L. HILLMAN
Keyword(s):  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Impact

Caught in the Net: The Impact of Changes to Canadian Employment Insurance Legislation on Part-time Workers

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norene Pupo ◽  
Ann Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Employment Insurance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Insurance Programme ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
The Impact

Throughout Western highly industrialised countries, there has been a marked shift toward more conservative social policies signalling a dismantling of the welfare state as part of the process of globalisation. This paper examines the aetiology of the (un)employment insurance programme in the Canadian context. Recently, legislators have tightened eligibility rules, lowered earnings replacement rates and altered coverage requirements. While these changes signal a shredding of the social safety net, they differentially impact on certain segments of the population. Despite official pronouncements of fairness, employment insurance changes intensify the subordination women experience in the paid labour force.

scholarly journals Heterogeneity in the Impact of Economic Cycles and the Great Recession: Effects within and across the Income Distribution

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 154-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Bitler ◽  
Hilary Hoynes
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Economic Cycles ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Social ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we examine the effects of economic cycles on low-to moderate-income families. We use variation across states and over time to estimate the effects of cycles on the distribution of income, using fine gradations of the household income-to-poverty ratio. We also explore how the effects of cycles affect the risk of falling into poverty across demographic groups, focusing on age, race/ethnicity, and family type. We conclude by testing to see whether these relationships have changed in the Great Recession. We discuss the results in light of the changes in the social safety net in recent decades.

scholarly journals A Social Safety Net: Developing a Model of Social-Support Figures as Prepared Safety Stimuli

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica A. Hornstein ◽  
Naomi I. Eisenberger
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Fear Learning ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Physical Health Outcomes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Safety Signals ◽  
Improve Health

Although the presence of social-support figures (e.g., close friends and family members) is known to increase feelings of safety, reduce threat responses, and improve health, the route by which these effects occur is not well understood. One explanation is that social-support figures are members of a powerful category of safety signals—prepared safety stimuli. Here, we review research demonstrating that social-support figures act as prepared safety stimuli and explore the impact that these unique safety stimuli have on fear-learning processes. According to recent work, the presence of social-support figures both reduces fear acquisition and enhances fear extinction, ultimately decreasing perceptions of threat. These findings shed light on the route by which social support buffers against threat and illustrate the unique properties of prepared safety stimuli and how they might be used to improve mental and physical health outcomes.

scholarly journals The Impact of the digitalization and the policy changes on the Savings Instruments (Saving Certificates) in Bangladesh: a response from the investors.

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (08) ◽  
pp. 2353-2365
Author(s):  
Ashish Basak
Keyword(s):  
Investment Decision ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Identity Cards ◽  
Tax Savings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Recent Policy

Investment in the National Savings Certificate (NSC) has been the most popular savings instrument among the people of Bangladesh that provides guaranteed returns with tax savings. The government of Bangladesh mainly issues the NSCs to collect money from small and scattered savings of general people. It brings marginal and special populations into the Government's social safety net programs for ensuring an equitable and poverty-free society. Recently the authority has introduced automation and regulatory deterrents such as making mandatory the submission of e-TIN, national identity cards, bank accounts, cheque transactions, and increased deduction at source. My research has attempted to identify the impact of the policy changes on the investors’ minds and how they react. This study suggests that recent policy changes and the requirement for the mandatory documents to purchase NSCs have no impact on the investment decision as people still consider this is the most attractive and secures means of investment.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Safety Net Programmes on Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh: An Evidence from Old Age Allowance

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mamun
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Structure Interview ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Impact

Poverty among the rural poor elderly people is a crucial issue for Bangladesh since most of the people live in a rural area and rural people are more poor and vulnerable compared to the urban population. The Old Age Allowance Program (OAAP), under Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNPs), is one of the initiatives and interventions of government to solve this problem. This study tried to explore the effectiveness of OAAP for reducing poverty among its beneficiaries, rural poor elderly people, through qualitative methodology by applying semi-structure interview and secondary sources. The findings of the present research showed that OAAP has a positive impact on reducing poverty among the rural poor elderly people. Especially OAAP ensures the access of its beneficiaries to improve food and calorie, including increasing their status within their families as well as in society. However, outcomes also suggested ensuring more transparency during the enlisting stage of beneficiaries along with increasing allowance money and coverage, involving local civil society during the primary stage of enlisting beneficiaries,  more publicity program for raising awareness among the targeted people, reducing complexity during withdrawal of allowance etc. Therefore, allocation of this benefit can be distributed based on the area, and the demographic structure of a particular district and Upazila and age can also be reduced for the rural poor women.

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