| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27911 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27911 |
| Covid-19 and the U.S. Safety Net | |
| Robert A. Moffitt; James P. Ziliak | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-10-12 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine trends in employment, earnings, and incomes over the last two decades in the United States, and how the safety net has responded to changing fortunes, including the shutdown of the economy in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The U.S. safety net is a patchwork of different programs providing in-kind as well as cash benefits and had many holes prior to the Pandemic. In addition, few of the programs are designed explicitly as automatic stabilizers. We show that the safety net response to employment losses in the Covid-19 Pandemic largely consists only of increased support from unemployment insurance and food assistance programs, which did not replace the lost income for many households. We discuss possible options to reform social assistance in America that may provide more robust income floors in times of economic downturns. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Labor Discrimination ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27911 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585585 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Robert A. Moffitt,James P. Ziliak. Covid-19 and the U.S. Safety Net. 2020. |
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| w27911.pdf（360KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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