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Receiving Assistance in Material Need versus Active Participation in the Labour market: Who Will Win?

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  • Brian König
  • Gabriela Dováĺová
  • Ján Košta

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The paper focuses on identifying the main factors affecting the motivation of labour market participation in connection to the system of assistance in material need and the subsistence minimum. The results of the analysis show that (i) assistance in material need itself lowers the motivation to work, but in Slovakia, the difference between net household income from work after finding a job and the net social income during unemployment is increasing in time; (ii) house-holds with incomes below the subsistence minimum react to these changes most sensitively; and (iii) increases in the assistance in material need negatively affect the motivation to work, especially in those individuals for whom the additional benefit from work is relatively low, i.e., people with a low level of education and mothers with dependent children.

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  • Brian König & Gabriela Dováĺová & Ján Košta, 2025. "Receiving Assistance in Material Need versus Active Participation in the Labour market: Who Will Win?," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2025(1), pages 1-30.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpol:v:2025:y:2025:i:1:id:1451:p:1-30
    DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.1451
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    Keywords

    Subsistence minimum; assistance in material need; motivation to work; Heckman's selection model;
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    JEL classification:

    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
    • J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods

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