The animal welfare debate has been developing in the UK since the 18 century and for much of that time the emphasis has been on the use of legislation to protect animals. More recently in farm animals there has been a focus on using market-led approaches to improve animal welfare. In this paper we argue that there is a strong case for examining more closely supply-side solutions to improving an...

In Australian welfare reform debate, a range of approaches and policies have been advocated. Regardless of their diversity, I argue that the debate has an unnecessarily narrow framework resulting from the widespread acceptance of at least three welfare reform myths. First, is the idea that the current system is anachronistic and in disrepair. Instead of this narrow focus on welfare policy, I ar...

We analysed the reports of government-appointed inspectors from 192 zoos between 2005-2008 to provide the first review of how animal welfare was assessed in British zoos since the enactment of the Zoo Licensing Act 1981. We examined the effects of whether or not a veterinarian was included in the inspection team, type of inspection, licence status of the zoo and membership of a zoo association ...

The welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have undergone massive changes since the beginning of the 1990s. This paper reviews the literature on welfare state development in CEE in light of the theories that have been used to study advanced capitalist democracies. Its purpose is to critically assess the extent to which diff erent theories can explain changes in the welfare state dur...

We investigate the effects of the settlement market of life insurance policies on the monopolistic insurer's profit and social welfare. We assume that consumers differ only in their liquidity needs, and that the insurer cannot discriminate consumers based on their liquidity needs. When the settlement market incurs no costs, we find that the existence of the settlement market enhances social wel...

Higher welfare support levels diminish the relative value of education according to standard economic theory. However, studies based on the negative income tax experimentshavefound that higher welfare support levels increase participation in the educational system. This study examines a nonexperimental source of data to determine the effect of higher expected state-level welfare benefits on hig...

Since its creation, New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) has used child and family development research to bridge the chasm between child welfare and juvenile justice policy and practice. OCFS's major challenges have been to help the staff and stakeholders of the merged child welfare and juvenile justice agencies develop a common culture and design new financial and prog...

n recent years, single mothers on welfare have gone to work in unprecedented numbers. But with limited skills and work histories, they usually get low-paying jobs and remain in poverty. The situation is especially acute for the half of the caseload that does not graduate from high school. Since recipients with higher skills tend to get better jobs, it seems logical that education and training s...

This paper studies the strategic and welfare effects of the “failing firm defense” in declining markets with differentiated products. All solvent firms prefer a clearing of the rescue merger to the failing firm exiting the market. The failing firm defense increases consumer surplus, since the benefit from maintained product variety outweighs the cost of higher prices that result from the merger...

This paper compares the performances of three alternative nominal anchors, i.e., price inflation, nominal income growth, and money growth in an estimated monetary business cycle model. The representative household’s lifetime utility is used as a natural welfare metric, and the welfare effects of the non-linear dynamics are captured by a quadratic approximate solution method. Strict inflation ta...