Professional Activity of Parents Receiving Family 500+ Child Support in Rural and Urban Areas

Kmieć, Dorota

doi:10.22630/aspe.2019.18.3.30

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“…It has been observed that beneficiaries happen to be reluctant to search for a job or to continue their employment, especially in case of the persons with low income (Blundell et al 2000;Haan, Myck, 2007) and among Polish mothers (Myck, 2016;Magda, Kiełczewska, Brandt, 2018). Parents who were granted the 500+ benefits who had at least two children are more professionally active than one child families (Kmieć 2019). In general, the authorities could be satisfied with the pro-family effects of the 500+ Programme.…”

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The Role of Family Policy in Solving Demographic Problems: Study of the Polish Program Family 500+

Wilk¹

2020

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This article offers a critical reflection on the Programme “Family 500+” introduced by the Polish government and aimed at improving the financial situation of Polish families in order to increase the fertility rate. Families have been supported with the benefit of 500 PLN given for each child under 18. The article presents the results of the research carried out in 2019 on the representatives of the households (N= 3347). The interviewees most frequently pointed to the increase of the quality of living conditions and the increase in the consumption of goods and services. Approximately 80% of the interviewees have noticed the fact that the benefit boosted potential development of children by enabling them to participate in the extracurricular activities and visit leisure centers. 64,7% of the interviewees believe that the Programme let them have savings and 17,8% of respondents claim that the benefit will not contribute to their savings but will be consumed on a day-to-day basis. Despite the initial assumptions of the Programme , the policy of pronatalism was not achieved as the fertility rate did not reach the assumed level. It must be stated that even though the legislative activities constitute a milestone in the Polish pro-family policy these solutions have many disadvantages. The Programme should not be the main tool of the Polish demographic policy but just supplementary. Keywords: Family 500+ Programme; family policy; demographic policy; State Aid for Child Support Act; household finance; family benefits

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The Role of Family Policy in Solving Demographic Problems: Study of the Polish Program Family 500+

Wilk¹

2020

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“…Magda et al (2018) suggested that the labour market participation rates of women with children decreased after the introduction of the "Family 500+" programme compared to childless women. The influence of the "Family 500+" programme on the female labour market was studied also by Ruzik-Sierdzińska (2017), Radzik (2017) and Kmieć (2019). Some of the studies present evidence on the impact of the "Family 500+" programme to poverty and income inequality reduction.…”

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

Wędrowska

Muszyńska

2021

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia

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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.

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Professional Activity of Parents Receiving Family 500+ Child Support in Rural and Urban Areas

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The Role of Family Policy in Solving Demographic Problems: Study of the Polish Program Family 500+

The Role of Family Policy in Solving Demographic Problems: Study of the Polish Program Family 500+

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

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