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Welfare Reforms and the Division of Parental Leave
Jørgensen, Thomas Høgholm; Søgaard, Jakob Egholt - 2021
We study the design of parental leave systems through the lens of an estimated model of parents’ joint willingness to pay for parental leave. We estimate the model using Danish register data on almost 200,000 births combined with sharp variation in economic incentives created by the parental...
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Top Incomes and Top Taxes in Germany
Corneo, Giacomo - 2006
We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (iv) although effective tax rates are significantly lower than statutory ones …
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Inheritance Taxation and Wealth Effects on the Labor Supply of Heirs
Kindermann, Fabian - 2019
The taxation of bequests can have a positive impact on the labor supply of heirs through wealth effects. This leads to an increase in future labor income tax revenue on top of direct bequest tax revenue. We first show in a theoretical model that a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation, based...
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Alternatives to Paying Child Benefit to the Rich : Means Testing or Higher Tax?
Apps, Patricia F. - 2020
Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...
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Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions
Anderberg, Dan - 2021
This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a GBP100/week welfare benefit "partnership penalty" reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven...
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Boca, Daniela Del - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...
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How Did U.S. Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor-supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...
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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers
Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021
We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a staggered fashion, from 2003 to 2010. Using...
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Replicator Evolution of Welfare Stigma : Welfare Fraud vs. Incomplete Take-Up
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2021
There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible people receive welfare benefits, and incomplete take-up, whereby eligible poor people are reluctant to claim welfare benefits. This study investigates both of these opposing...
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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022
Transfers from parents—either in the form of gifts or inheritances—have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows available to an individual (defined as the...
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