scholarly journals Family Benefit Reform in Lithuania: Microsimulation of Its Distributional Impacts

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Salanauskaitė ◽  
Gerlinde Verbist
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Universal System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Reform ◽  
Family Benefits ◽  
Relative Gains ◽  
Families With Children

The paper explores to what extent the Lithuanian family benefit system is able to reduce inequality and poverty among families with children, with poverty reduction being one of the major aims. Family benefits underwent a major reform in2004, which entailed a shift from means-tested benefits to a more universal system. Due to budget constraints, the implementation of the full reform design has been postponed until 2008. No distributional impact analysis of this reform, either of its initial or of its final designs, has been implemented yet. Furthermore, we analyse whether the gains from the newly designed system of family benefits are not outweighed by respective losses in social assistance benefits. To conduct such an analysis, we develop a partial static microsimulation model based on the EU-SILC (household income and living conditions) survey. The model is programmed in STATA statistical software. Our findings show that, despite small income improvements brought by the reform, its overall child poverty reduction effectiveness is limited. Moreover, the interaction of a family benefit with the social assistance system implies that some household types are relatively “bigger” winners compared to others. For example, our research reveals that single-parent households would obtain income gains comparable to those of large families only when the full reform scenario is implemented. If considering indirect effects (i.e. the loss of social assistance benefits), their relative gains become even smaller.

scholarly journals Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-261
Author(s):  
Daria Popova
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Family ◽  
Family Benefits ◽  
Social Security Benefits

AbstractThis chapter discusses the general legal framework regulating Russia’s welfare system and access for national citizens, foreigners residing in the country, and national citizens residing abroad to social benefits in five policy areas: unemployment, health care, family benefits, pensions, and guaranteed minimum resources. Our analysis shows that the eligibility of Russian nationals for social benefits depends either on their employment status and contribution record (for pensions and other social insurance benefits), or their residence status (for social assistance and healthcare). The overall level of social protection of citizens residing in different parts of the country may differ substantially due to the decentralized structure of the social protection system in Russia. The rights of foreign residents to social security benefits are essentially the same as those of the nationals, as long as they are legally employed and make social security contributions. However, there are two major exceptions: pensions and unemployment benefits. Social assistance benefits provided at the regional level are typically available to all legal residents, foreigners included, with few exceptions. When deciding to permanently move abroad, Russian citizens lose their entitlement to claim social benefits from Russia, apart from acquired contributory public pensions.

Recession, Recovery, and Regime Change: Effects on Child Poverty in Hungary

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
András Gábos ◽  
István György Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Work Intensity ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
Poverty Risk ◽  
Cash Benefits ◽  
Family Benefits ◽  
Outward Migration

Despite high spending on family benefits and the high poverty reduction effectiveness of cash benefits, the risk of child poverty in Hungary have been higher than the EU average since the early 1990s in which the relatively high share of children in very low work-intensity households played a significant role. The crisis period brought an even higher poverty risk for children. According to the chapter’s findings, the increase in child poverty in the first phase of the crisis was driven by labour market processes (an increasing share of children in low work-intensity households), while the automatic stabilizers reduced the magnitude of these effects. By contrast, in the second phase, labour market processes started to improve (although mainly through controversial policy tools, like public work and outward migration), though the shift towards a regressive social policy regime contributed to increased poverty rates via the reduced poverty reduction impacts of cash benefits.

scholarly journals Forms of social assistance in the social protection system and their role in poverty reduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 158 (3-4(2)) ◽  
pp. 92-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Abakumenko ◽  
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Larisa Kovalenko ◽  
Olena Tovstizhenko ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Protection System ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Child Poverty, Child Maintenance and Interactions with Social Assistance Benefits Among Lone Parent Families: a Comparative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIA HAKOVIRTA ◽  
CHRISTINE SKINNER ◽  
HEIKKI HIILAMO ◽  
MERITA JOKELA
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Lone Parent ◽  
Lone Parents ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Child Maintenance

AbstractIn many developed countries lone parent families face high rates of child poverty. Among those lone parents who do get child maintenance there is a hidden problem. States may retain all, or a proportion, of the maintenance that is paid in order to offset other fiscal costs. Thus, the potential of child maintenance to alleviate poverty among lone parent families may not be fully realized, especially if the families are also in receipt of social assistance benefits. This paper provides an original comparative analysis exploring the effectiveness of child maintenance to reduce child poverty among lone parent families in receipt of social assistance. It addresses the question of whether effectiveness is compromised once interaction effects (such as the operation of a child maintenance disregard) are taken into account in four countries Australia, Finland, Germany and the UK using the LIS dataset (2013). It raises important policy considerations and provides evidence to show that if policy makers are serious about reducing child poverty, they must understand how hidden mechanisms within interactions between child maintenance and social security systems can work as effective cost recovery tools for the state, but have no poverty reduction impact.

scholarly journals Analisis Aktor Pelaksana Dalam Implementasi Program Bantuan Sosial Beras Sejahtera Di Kelurahan Kasongan Baru Kecamatan Katingan Hilir Kabupaten Katingan

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Muhammad Riban Satia ◽  
Risdayanti Noor Safitri
Keyword(s):  
Social Assistance ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Family Benefits ◽  
The Village

The purpose of this research is to know how actors role in the implementation of the Rice prosperous assistance Program in the new Kasongan sub-district of Katingan Hilir Katingan regency. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive that is to explain, describe, and represent a phenomenon that exists to solve a problem. In this study there are two data sources, namely the primary data source obtained from interviews with several respondents in the new village of Kasongan, and secondary data sources are obtained from various documents and so on. Based on the results of the study can be concluded that the role of actors in implementing the implementation of the social rice assistance Program in Kasongan New village is still not going well if viewed from the communication and target of the recipient family Benefits. From the problem that the researcher suggested that the village employees more often communicate with the community in Kasongan New village, especially the beneficiaries family of social and social assistance Emphasize again to each Kelurahan or village in order to record the community that is included in the criteria of beneficiaries social rice assistance so that the data can be renewed and the achievement of the purpose of the social assistance of the prosperous rice in Katingan.

Family Benefits and Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 640-660
Author(s):  
Naomi Finch ◽  
Jonathan Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Benefits ◽  
Families With Children

This chapter examines welfare-state support for families with children in the context of low fertility, increasing rates of childlessness, and a general move away from the breadwinner model of the family. Welfare-state spending on families is explored, and, although most countries, with few exceptions, spend more on older people, spending on children varies between countries, as does spending to encourage mothers into employment. Adopting the model family method to compare the package of policies to support families with children at different earning levels, the chapter shows varying results of generosity, depending on whether we compare low or average earners. The chapter also provides evidence that family policies matter for outcomes—with stronger spending on services increasing both fertility and maternal employment, spending on both services and benefits increasing child well-being, and generosity of transfers lowering child poverty rates.

scholarly journals What Should Child Benefit Look Like?

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-69
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Considerable Proportion ◽  
National Goal ◽  
Families With Children

The article analyzes the reasons for the lack of a significant impact on poverty of the existing social assistance system and shows the need to improve the latter for families with children. The paper reveals that households with children have significant risks of poverty and constitute more than 70% of all poor households. The article notes that for a sustained increase in population income and poverty reduction, it is necessary to ensure accelerated economic growth as well as growth in real wages, pensions and social benefits. At the same time, effective tools of social protection are needed to bring certain groups of people with a significant poverty depth out of poverty. The article argues that the existing family and child allowances reduce the poverty of families with children only slightly. This is due to several reasons. Firstly, a significant part of benefits to families with children is paid without means testing. Secondly, a considerable proportion of families with children receiving targeted social benefits are not poor. Thirdly, a significant proportion of poor families with children are not covered by social assistance. And finally, the size of most targeted benefits is small. It is obvious that the preservation of the old paradigm of paying child benefits is ineffective and does not contribute to the achievement of the national goal of reducing poverty. The paper shows that the introduction of targeted benefits to low-income families with children under a social contract, bringing the average per capita family income to the subsistence minimum, would increase the targeting of social assistance and its effectiveness in poverty reduction both among families with children and among the population.

On Major Conceptual Shifts within Research on Child Well-Being in Estonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-2020) ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Dagmar Kutsar
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
International Comparative

The aim of this paper is to highlight major shifts in research regarding children and childhood as a narrative of the author. It starts from presenting a retrospective of child poverty research in Estonia, and it is demonstrated how it has developed from the social and political acknowledgement of poverty as a social issue in the early 1990s. Then it revisits main shifts in theory and methodology of childhood research and reaches international comparative approaches to child subjective and relational well-being.

Belgium: Creeping Vulnerability of Children

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Vinck ◽  
Wim Van Lancker
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Important Lesson ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Poverty Risk ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
The Impact

Belgium has been plagued by comparatively high levels of child poverty, and by a creeping, yet significant, increase that started in the good years before the crisis. This is related to the relatively high share of jobless households, the extremely high and increasing poverty risk of children growing up in these households, and benefits that are inadequate to shield jobless families with children from poverty. Although the impact of the Great Recession was limited in Belgium, the crisis seems to have had an impact on child poverty, by increasing the number of children living in work-poor households. Although the Belgian welfare state had an important cushioning impact, its poverty-reducing capacity was less strong than it used to be. The most important lesson from the crisis is that in order to make further headway in reducing child poverty, not only activation but also social protection should be improved.

Standard of Living, Health, and Utilization of Social and Health Services a Survey of the Population of Three Districts in Malmö

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-103
Author(s):  
Lars Dahlin
Keyword(s):  
Residential Areas ◽  
Random Choice ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Background Data ◽  
Impaired Health ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Made In

A survey of the social and medical conditions of the population in three well-defined districts in Malmö was made in order to obtain background data for the planning of open care. A random choice was made of 70 households from each of the three residential areas for interview purposes. Available data concerning actual individuals were collected from the social and health authorities. Wide variations existed between the three districts. The inhabitants of Kroksbäck, mostly young families with children, were comparatively healthy somatically, whereas many had social problems; mental troubles were common too. In Lorensborg, the inhabitants did not conspicuously deviate from the average, as regards complaints. In Ellstorp, with its elderly population, two in three had impaired health, mostly in the form of somatic complaints; moreover their teeth were in poor condition. One in three of all interviewees had felt ill in some respect during the fortnight preceding the interview, and more than half had some current health problem. Eleven percent of all interviewees had sought medical advice during this fortnight. One in three of the interviewees was using prescribed remedies at the time of the interview. Eleven percent of those in the gainfully employable age range had been sick-listed for some part of the fortnight. The need for a general practitioner service, continuity of care, health centres and integration of social and medical care is discussed.

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