There is a strong intergenerational correlation in welfare participation, but this does not imply that parental welfare … parental welfare participation for children from marginal welfare participants, we know very little about intergenerational … spillovers of welfare participation onto the children of average welfare participants. By combining rich administrative data from …

Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would …

implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … skilled workers, for not too high distortions in the labour market. Furthermore, it leads to a higher tax burden and a welfare …

We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two … municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with relatively high benefits and low incentives for single mothers to leave welfare for … work. In our analysis, we make a distinction between native and immigrant welfare recipients. For immigrant single mothers …

behavior regarding tax evasion and welfare dodging, with and without information about others’ behavior. Subjects have to … treatment and from black labor supplementing some unemployment compensation in the Welfare treatment. Subjects have then to … more in the Welfare treatment than in the Tax treatment; (ii) many subjects choose an option that allows for tax evasion or …

welfare, as measured by equiva- lent variations. While working individuals hardly benefit or may even lose, retirees … experience substantial welfare gains. An increase in the tax deductability of pension contributions can be beneficial for working … cohorts, but comes at the cost of a reduction in aggregate welfare due to efficiency losses. …