Public Policy in a Time of Crisis: A Framework for Evaluating Canada’s COVID-19 Income Support Programs

2020 ◽  
Vol COVID-19 ◽  
pp. e2020117
Author(s):  
Kourtney Koebel ◽  
Dionne Pohler ◽  
Rafael Gomez ◽  
Akshay Mohan
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Income Support

scholarly journals Volunteering, Income Support Programs and Persons with Disabilities

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Campolieti ◽  
Rafael Gomez ◽  
Morley Gunderson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Activity Limitation ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Volunteer Activity

We study the propensity of persons with disabilities to engage in volunteer activity using the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS). Our principal focus is on the effects of various income support programs on persons with disabilities participation in volunteer activities because income support programs can differ with respect to their treatment of unpaid work. For example, workers’ compensation programs embody strong disincentives to volunteering while public disability insurance programs explicitly encourage unpaid work. We find that workers’ compensation is associated with decreases in the probability of volunteering while public disability insurance is associated with increases in the propensity to volunteer. The relevance of these results to both theories of volunteerism and public policy is discussed.

scholarly journals Did We Lose the War on Poverty?

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale W Jorgenson
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Accurate Assessment ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Economic Well Being

Official U.S. poverty statistics based on household income imply that the proportion of the U.S. population below the poverty level reached a minimum in 1973, giving rise to the widespread impression that the elimination of poverty is impossible. By contrast, poverty estimates based on household consumption have fallen through 1989 and imply that the war on poverty was a success. This paper recommends replacing income by consumption in official estimates of poverty in order to obtain a more accurate assessment of the impact of income support programs and economic growth on the level and distribution of economic well-being among households.

scholarly journals Some effects of price and income support programs on marginal farms

1961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Homer C. Evans ◽  
W. W. Armentrout ◽  
Robert L. Jack
Keyword(s):  
Support Programs ◽  
Income Support

Choosing Justice in Experimental Democracies with Production

1990 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Frohlich ◽  
Joe A. Oppenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Laboratory Setting ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Direct Participation ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Taxation System

We examine in a laboratory setting how direct participation in choosing a principle of distributive justice and a tax system impinges on subjects' attitudes and subsequent productivity when they participate in a task, produce income, and then experience losses or gains according to the tax system. Experience with a redistributive principle and its associated taxation system in a production environment does not detract from overall acceptance of the distributive principle, particularly for subjects who participate in choosing the principle. Participation in discussion, choice, and production increases subjects' convictions regarding their preferences. For these subjects (especially recipients of transfers) productivity rises significantly over the course of the experiments. No such effect is evident for subjects who do not participate in setting the regime under which they are to labor. The results' implications for questions of democratic participation and the stability of income support programs are drawn.

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