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Herwig Immervoll

@herwigsocial.bsky.social

Social Benefits & Green Transition @OECD | Posts are my personal views

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Minimum-income support & related benefits are meant as a lifeline, or an income 'floor', in situations of acute economic need. But are they? We find big differences in scope and reach in a new empirical study across 14 OECD countries ➡️ lnkd.in/eC3Xjq_2

29.11.2024 19:33 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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This graph on what happens at the bottom of income distributions (poorest 10%) is shocking.

#socialprotection can be *all* that people got (and it's 60% of their income on avg).

And many of those people *contribute* financially to it.

Hyee @herwigsocial.bsky.social et al
docs.iza.org/dp17477.pdf

29.11.2024 17:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great piece.

22.11.2024 23:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ha, new platforms are refreshingly equalising

22.11.2024 08:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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