The Impact of Family and Child-Allowances on Income Inequality in Poland. Gini Decomposition by Income Sources

Research background: This paper analyses how different income sources affect the level of inequality in Poland, with focus on the role of family and children related allowances in decreasing income inequalities in 2015–2017. Therefore, the study has focused on the various subgroups of households with children. Purpose: The paper is aimed at examining the extent to which family and children related allowances affect household income inequality and identifying whether they affect inequality in various groups of households in the same way. Methodology: The study was carried out on micro-data gathered by Eurostat. To examine the extent to which different income components affect income inequality, we decompose the Gini coefficient according to the method introduced by Lerman and Yitzhaki. Results: Our study revealed that for most households with children, the inequality-reducing effect due to family and children related allowances increased in 2017 compared to 2015. However, despite the additional child-raising benefit under the “Family 500+” programme, income taxes and social security contributions remained by far the most important factor in reducing household income inequalities in Poland. Novelty: To our knowledge, no study has yet attempted to assess the extent to which family and child-allowances affect income inequality based on real data. The present analysis takes a step towards filling this gap. Unlike other studies based on microsimulation, in this paper we made use of the representative micro-data derived from the EU-SILC study.

Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in Serbia

Turbulent political events of the 1990s marked by the Yugoslav wars, protracted transition from socialism to capitalism, and unstable economic outlook since 2000, have contributed to the preservation of a Serbian welfare system focused on ‘old social risks’, also marked by an exclusionary social protection model that limits access to some benefits to migrants – both foreigners in Serbia and Serbians abroad. Access to most social protection benefits for foreigners residing and working in Serbia depends on the same criteria and requirements as those applied for resident nationals. As the Serbian welfare regime is based on the social insurance model, the entitlement for most social benefits in cash or in kind is based on the employment period and/or payment of compulsory social insurance contributions. However, foreigners remain excluded from accessing non-contributory benefits such as the parental benefits, child allowances or the guaranteed minimum resource scheme. Non-resident nationals have access to social benefits depending on whether the country they reside in has signed social security agreements with Serbia, but range of benefits varies depending on the country.

Suvremeni izazovi u provođenju socijalne politike s posebnim naglaskom na mjere socijalne intervencije

In this paper the authors give special attention to the measures of social interventions as measures of social policy in line to fight the present challenges of the contemporary society. Special attention is given to the measures of child allowances, parental benefits, state subsidies for residential loans for young families and other measures of pro-natal and family policy not just at the state level but also at local municipality level.

Why Child Allowances Fail to Solve the Pension Problem of Aging Societies

The aim of the paper is to investigate how child allowances affect population growth and pension benefits of pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension systems in small open and closed economies. We apply an overlapping-generations (OLG) model in its canonical form, where we consider endogenous fertility and growth generated by human capital accumulation. From the analysis, we conclude that in a small open economy, child allowances increase the number of children, yet decrease pension benefits over the long run. If we consider a closed economy, the effect of child allowances on fertility is ambiguous and remains negative on pension benefits over the long run.

‘An Invasion of Guest Worker Children’: Welfare Reform and the Stigmatisation of Family Migration in West Germany

This article examines the effects of the 1974 child allowance reform on guest worker families in West Germany. As part of a wider reform, West Germany implemented a two-tiered system of child allowances whereby migrant parents received more money for children who lived in the European Economic Community (EEC) than for children who lived outside the EEC. Migrants protested the reform and with it the assumptions of the guest worker programme. However, these parents had to contend with a popular narrative whereby foreign parents who brought their children to West Germany after the reform were in fact irresponsible ‘welfare migrants’ who placed their desire for financial gain over their children's need for a stable environment. The idea that this specific welfare reform had been the trigger for large-scale family migration not only discouraged further investigation of the causes of family migration but was also used to support new restrictions on that migration.

Altruism, environmental externality and fertility

We investigate the interaction between environmental quality and fertility in an altruistic bequest model with pollution externalities created by the aggregate production. Despite the negative externality related to the endogenous childbearing decisions, parents may choose to have fewer children in the competitive economy than in the social optimum. To achieve optimality, positive taxes on childbearing are required even with an insufficient number of children, if the social discount factor equals the parents' degree of altruism. On the other hand, child allowances may constitute the optimal policy if the social discount factor exceeds the parents' degree of altruism.

PERANAN PERADILAN AGAMA DALAM MELINDUNGI HAK PEREMPUAN DAN ANAK MELALUI PUTUSAN YANG MEMIHAK DAN DAPAT DILAKSANAKAN / THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS COURT IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN RIGHTS PROTECTION THROUGH PARTIAL AND EXECUTABLE DECISION

Kewenangan Peradilan Agama banyak bersentuhan langsung dengan kepentingan perempuan dan anak, terutama dalam perkara perceraian dan pengasuhan anak. Peradilan Agama berwenang mengadili sengketa di bidang hukum keluarga dan hukum ekonomi Syariah. Perkara-perkara yang termasuk dalam hukum keluarga seperti perceraian, gugatan nafkah, hak asuh anak, nafkah anak, dan perkara-perkara yang merupakan akibat perceraian, banyak bersentuhan dengan hak-hak perempuan dan anak. Dalam penegakan hukum terkait hak-hak perempuan dan anak, Mahkamah Agung telah mengesahkan Peraturan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 3 Tahun 2017 yang menekankan lembaga peradilan lebih memerhatikan aspek perlindungan hak-hak perempuan dan anak dalam memutus perkara. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian normatif, dengan menggunakan pendekatan perundang-undangan (statute approach) dan pendekatan konseptual (conceptual approach). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Peradilan Agama, dalam hal ini telah mengambil peran dalam melindungi hak perempuan dan anak melalui beberapa regulasi dan putusan perkara. Peradilan Agama berupaya memaksimalkan pelaksanaan putusan dengan mengimplementasikan kaidah-kaidah hukum yang responsif sebagaimana dikehendaki dalam Peraturan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 3 Tahun 2017 sehingga putusan tersebut dapat dieksekusi dengan baik. Selain itu, perlu adanya sinergitas lintas instansi agar upaya melindungi hak-hak kaum perempuan dan anak dapat terwujud secara lebih signifikan.The authority of Indonesia’s Religious Court has direct relation to women and children interest, especially in divorce and childcare cases. Religious court has the authority in adjudicating cases of family law and Islamic economy law. Divorce, livelihood, child custody, child allowances, and cases related to the direct consequences of divorce have significant matter to the women and children rights. In case of enforcing law that concern to the protection of women and children rights, Indonesia Supreme Court has enacted Peraturan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 3 Tahun 2017 that insist judicial institution to emphasize the protection of those rights in adjudication processes. The Religious Courts have taken a role in protecting the rights of women and children through several regulations and case decisions. This research is a normative study, using a statute approach and a conceptual approach. The results of the study indicate that the Religious Courts has a shot to implement comprehensively legal norms in Perma Nomor 3 Tahun 2017 as of the court decision more executable. Moreover, it is an urgent demand to hold an inter-institutions cooperation to raise the effectiveness of securing women and children rights.

The portability of social rights of the United Kingdom with the European Union: Facts, issues, and prospects

The portability of social benefits – such as the state pension, child allowances and unemployment benefits – for international migrants is regulated by social security agreements concluded between countries or at supra-national level, such as within the European Economic Area (EEA). Focusing on the United Kingdom, this article aims at capturing the main issues that have been recently raised by such agreements, with particular emphasis on the case of migration between the UK and Europe. The first part of the paper summarises the main consideration researchers and policy makers should bear in mind in looking at portability. Using data from the 2013 World Bank migration matrix, the second part of the paper compares the stock of British migrants residing abroad and the stock of foreigners living in the United Kingdom. The third part of the paper summarises the main issues that were raised in relation to the EEA multilateral agreement including the notion of residence, the state pension, family allowances, and the portability of health care benefits. The conclusions highlight the main concerns and options that lie ahead following the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union.