Benefit Adequacy

Benefit Adequacy is a normative evaluative criterion in income support, social insurance, and welfare policy that denotes the extent to which the level, duration, and structure of program benefits are sufficient to enable beneficiaries to attain a socially defined minimum standard of material well-being and income security consistent with the program’s objectives.

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8.6K

Citations

331

Authors

165

Institutions

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2017–2026

Parents

Income Support PolicySocial InsuranceWelfare Policy

Children

Benefit Adequacy GapsBenefit Replacement AdequacyHousehold Needs AssessmentHousing Benefit AdequacyMinimum Income StandardsPoverty ThresholdsSocial Assistance AdequacyUnemployment Benefit AdequacyWelfare Take-up

Publications

178

Social Insurance and Allied Services

A. G. B., William Beveridge · International Affairs Review Supplement · 1943 · 1.3K citations · Full text

Public Affairs, Insurance, Social Policy +8

Some Simple Economics of Mandated Benefits

Lawrence H. Summers · American Economic Review · 1989 · 652 citations

Business, Economics, Benefit-cost Analysis +9

Unemployment insurance and the distribution of unemployment spells

Robert Moffitt · Journal of Econometrics · 1985 · 448 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Insurance +14

The Ubiquity of the Benefit Principle

Richard A. Epstein · eYLS (Yale Law School) · 1994 · 297 citations · Full text

Public Affairs, Economics, Benefit-cost Analysis +11

Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment

M. C. Rorty · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1936 · 278 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Insurance +12

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Authors

331

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Eric M. Engen
Federal Reserve Board of Governors, United States
4 publications · 367 citations
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William G. Gale
Brookings Institution, United States
4 publications · 367 citations
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Peter Saunders
UNSW Sydney, Australia
4 publications · 57 citations
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Evangelos Benos
Bank of England, United Kingdom
3 publications · 237 citations
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Robert Moffitt
Johns Hopkins University, United States
3 publications · 703 citations
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Institutions

165

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Venues

SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 14 publications · 341 citations
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PubMed
Repository · 8 publications · 141 citations
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Industrial and Labor Relations Review
8 publications · 198 citations
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Repository · 8 publications · 201 citations
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Journal of Risk & Insurance
5 publications · 216 citations
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