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The anatomy of behavioral responses to social assistance when informal employment is high
Bergolo, Marcelo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2016
The disincentive effects of social assistance programs on registered employment are a first order policy concern in developing countries. Means tests determine eligibility with respect to some income threshold, and governments can only verify earnings from registered employment. The loss of...
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The anatomy of behavioral responses to social assistance when informal employment is high
Bergolo, Marcelo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2016
The disincentive effects of social assistance programs on registered (or formal) employment are a first order policy concern in developing and middle income countries. Means tests determine eligibility with respect to some income threshold, and governments can only verify earnings from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563188
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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South : a comparative assessment
Lastunen, Jesse; Mahieu, Antoine de; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024
This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide a cross-country perspective on the redistributive...
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Improving the modeling of couples' labour supply
Breunig, Robert (contributor);  … - 2005
, which does not allow for labour supply effects. -- family labour supply ; Australia ; simulated maximum likelihood …
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Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply
Breunig, Robert V.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong - 2021
We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations. We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...
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The effects of cash transfers on adult labor market outcomes
Baird, Sarah; McKenzie, David J.; Özler, Berk - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 22, pp. 1-20
The basic economic model of labor supply has a very clear prediction of what we should expect when an adult receives an unexpected cash windfall: they should work less and earn less. This intuition underlies concerns that many types of cash transfers, ranging from government benefits to migrant...
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Recent Trends in Income Redistribution in Australia : Can Changes in the Tax-Transfer System Account for the Decline in Redistribution?
Herault, Nicolas - 2014
We examine trends in the redistributive impact of the tax-transfer system in Australia between 1994 and 2009 using a …
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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : an overview of evidence from social protection policies
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in developing countries in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms for risk-protection,...
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English Proficiency and Labour Supply of Immigrants in Australia
Law, Vincent - 2011
This paper explores the impact of English proficiency on the labour supply of recent immigrants in Australia. While …, and none in Australia, has been done with respect to hours worked by immigrants. The number of hours worked by immigrants … to Australia data to estimate a Chamberlain style Tobit random effects estimator. The results suggest a positive …
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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of considerable policy interest. We examine the 'intent to treat effect' of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme on prime-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where...
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