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标题：Minimum income protection in the austerity tide
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作者：Sarah Marchal ; Ive Marx ; Natascha Van Mechelen 等
期刊名称：IZA Journal of European Labor Studies
电子版ISSN：2193-9012
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：1-20
DOI：10.1186/s40174-016-0052-7
出版社：Springer Verlag
摘要：Scholarly literature is inconclusive on how economic crises impact on minimum income protection.Earlier studies found small increases in the generosity of safety nets at the onset of the crisis.Yet an increased focus on budget austerity substantially altered the social policy context.This paper assesses how minimum income floors weathered the austerity tide following the crisis using purpose-collected data for 23 EU countries.Generally, social assistance benefit trends did not deviate much from pre-crisis growth levels.Yet retrenchment did occur through more technical measures, the combined impact of which was quite significant in some countries.
关键词：Minimum income schemes; Crisis measures; Reforms; EU member states; Social floor