Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/195018 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
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[Journal:] IZA Journal of European Labor Studies [ISSN:] 2193-9012 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 1-15
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, by employing a macro-level institutional dataset on benefit levels for social assistance (SA) and minimum income protection (MIP) in 22 European countries in the period 1990-2013, I show that the adequacy of income support for low-income inactive individuals in European welfare states has been steadily decreasing since 1994. Second, the paper revisits empirically the hypothesis of a trade-off between the adequacy of out-of-work benefits and the public expenditure on active labor market policies (ALMPs). The empirical results of the fixed effects model show that the trade-off does not appear to be significant in any of the tested specifications. The results are robust to the introduction of a set of conventional controls related to the labor market.
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Social assistance
Minimum income protection
Active labor market policies
European welfare states
JEL: 
H53
H55
I38
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