Ekonomiskt bistånd - En tvärsnittsstudie om arbetslöshet bland bidragstagare i 23 EU-länder
(2020) NEKH01 20192Department of Economics
- Abstract
- Unemployment has always been a fiercely debated topic in the social debate. Today's modern welfare societies have social protection networks aimed at protecting and helping individuals who, for various reasons, have fallen outside the labor market. These safety nets are aimed at maintaining a reasonable standard of living. Financial aid is the pis aller of the social protection network to prevent people from falling into poverty. This research is a cross-sectional study that analyzes the relationship between financial aid and unemployment for 23 EU countries. The study finds a positive relationship between financial aid and unemployment rate over time. For households with zero children guaranteed minimum income (financial aid) is found to... (More)
- Unemployment has always been a fiercely debated topic in the social debate. Today's modern welfare societies have social protection networks aimed at protecting and helping individuals who, for various reasons, have fallen outside the labor market. These safety nets are aimed at maintaining a reasonable standard of living. Financial aid is the pis aller of the social protection network to prevent people from falling into poverty. This research is a cross-sectional study that analyzes the relationship between financial aid and unemployment for 23 EU countries. The study finds a positive relationship between financial aid and unemployment rate over time. For households with zero children guaranteed minimum income (financial aid) is found to have a significant effect of unemployment, where an increase of guaranteed minimum income by one percentage point increases the unemployment rate by 0.190 percentage points during the period 2008 to 2018. This effect is also found to be significant over time for households with two children, however with reduced power. An increase in guaranteed minimum income by one percentage point for households with two children increases unemployment rate by 0.136 percentage points during the period 2008 to 2018. Furthermore, the study shows that the marginal effect of guaranteed minimum income is higher for both household types when adjusted for youth unemployment rate during the period 2008 to 2018. (Less)
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- author
- Tödt, Mattias LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKH01 20192
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Guaranteed minimum income benefits, financial aid, unemployment, youth unemployment
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9002166
- date added to LUP
- 2020-02-27 14:14:30
- date last changed
- 2020-02-27 14:14:30
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abstract = {{Unemployment has always been a fiercely debated topic in the social debate. Today's modern welfare societies have social protection networks aimed at protecting and helping individuals who, for various reasons, have fallen outside the labor market. These safety nets are aimed at maintaining a reasonable standard of living. Financial aid is the pis aller of the social protection network to prevent people from falling into poverty. This research is a cross-sectional study that analyzes the relationship between financial aid and unemployment for 23 EU countries. The study finds a positive relationship between financial aid and unemployment rate over time. For households with zero children guaranteed minimum income (financial aid) is found to have a significant effect of unemployment, where an increase of guaranteed minimum income by one percentage point increases the unemployment rate by 0.190 percentage points during the period 2008 to 2018. This effect is also found to be significant over time for households with two children, however with reduced power. An increase in guaranteed minimum income by one percentage point for households with two children increases unemployment rate by 0.136 percentage points during the period 2008 to 2018. Furthermore, the study shows that the marginal effect of guaranteed minimum income is higher for both household types when adjusted for youth unemployment rate during the period 2008 to 2018.}},
author = {{Tödt, Mattias}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Ekonomiskt bistånd - En tvärsnittsstudie om arbetslöshet bland bidragstagare i 23 EU-länder}},
year = {{2020}},
}