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- Title
- The Ugly Truth About Social Welfare Payments and Households’ Subjective Well-Being
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- Auckland University of Technology
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Background: Implicitly, social welfare payments (SWPs) are a transfer from the wealthy (those in high-income quintiles) to the poor (in low-income quintiles) to reduce poverty and create a more equal distribution of income. Previous studies have shown that resources, such as income (including SWPs), are pooled within households creating positive externalities. Studies on the subjective well-being (SWB) effect of SWPs are scarce, and no previous study has investigated whether the expected posi...
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- Research paper
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- Journal article
- Date created
- 2022-09-01
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- Rossouw, S / Greyling, T / Adhikari, T
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- https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/18513
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