This technical paper uses the multi-country data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine the institutions and levels of social protection for unemployment, disability, old age, and social assistance more generally, in a set of eight rich nations over the 1985-1995 period. These nations include those with expansive safety nets (e.g., Canada, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingd...

Unemployment insurance is an important social protection policy that buffers unemployed workers against poverty and poor health. Most unemployment insurance studies focus on whether increases in unemployment insurance generosity are predictive of poverty and health outcomes. Less work has used theory-driven approaches to understand and explain how and why unemployment insurance works, for whom,...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether poverty and unemployment increase the likelihood of or delay recovery from common mental disorders, and whether these associations could be explained by subjective financial strain. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING England, Wales, and Scotland. SUBJECTS 7726 adults aged 16-75 living in private households. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Common mental disorde...

poverty, in general and women’s poverty in particular is among social problems which has been subject to be mitigated through measures. the results of statistics based studies show that poverty and injustice is more prevalent in rural areas than cities and more common among women than men. the research aims to study the social and cultural causes of women’s poverty through the qualitative appro...

This paper analyzes the structural change and performance of the Nepalese economy over the period of 1965 to 2009, specially focusing on the impact of IMF and World Bank's structural adjustment program implemented since the mid-1980s based on the Washington consensus. The performance of Nepalese economy has not improved much after the implementation of a series of structural adjustment programs...

Poverty is a widespread problem not only inflicting poor nations, but also nations like the United States of America. In the history of the United States, women and racial minorities had always been persistently struggling with poverty. This paper intends to investigate poverty among Hispanic women between 2005 and 2010 and identify and analyze the relevant contributing factors. Within this per...

We examine the effect of macroeconomic performance on poverty in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. Our study advances research on this issue in a variety of ways: we utilize variation across the states rather than relying on over-time trends for the country as a whole; we analyze cross-state variation in both levels and change over time; we disentangle the impact of three different ...