Brian M. Lucey

Tag: welfare

  • Social Expenditure : Benefits in Kind or cash – Some comparative data

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    Lets leave aside for a moment what the levels of social expenditure might be. The composition of these also matters I contend. At one extreme we can give people a lot of cash and allow them to go find the services they need. At another extreme we can give them very little cash and provide…

  • Should we cut longterm unemployment payments?

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    There is some comment today in the newspapers on an EU commission report which states, inter alia, that welfare rates should be cut in the forthcoming budget. They state in a draft report (which doesn’t seem to be publicly available) “In part this may reflect the structure of the benefits system in Ireland, whereby activation…

  • Richard Tol, academic freedom and the ESRI.

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    The ESRI-Richard Tol brouhaha has been strangely ignored by many academic blogs. I guess its because we are all on holidays… To summarize; in May 2012 Richard, who had left the ESRI under rather strained circumstances earlier this year uploaded a working paper on the welfare-work wedge, whether and under what circumstances it is “better”…