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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2015
Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...
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Female labour supply and childcare in Italy
Figari, Francesco; Narazani, Edlira - 2017
It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behavior applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of...
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Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …
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Monetary compensation schemes during the COVID-19 pandemic : implications for household incomes, liquidity constraints and consumption across the EU
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Figari, Francesco; … - 2022
European Union (EU), making use of the EU microsimulation model EUROMOD and nowcasting techniques. We show evidence of …
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Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty : an adequate strategy?
Hufkens, Tine; Figari, Francesco; Vandelannoote, Dieter; … - 2019
states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The …
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Family welfare cultures
Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a causal relationship in welfare receipt across generations has created a...
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty
Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - 2008
The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success both in terms of equality and economic growth. However, it has recently become evident that subgroups of the population with weak labour market attachment and high welfare dependency, such as lone mothers, were...
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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
. Our study also points to the importance of universal child care programs in explaining differences in earnings inequality …
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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2015
Strong intergenerational correlations in wealth have fueled a long-standing debate over why children of wealthy parents tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation and investor behavior as adults. Our research design...
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Local governments, in-kind transfers, and economic inequality
Mogstad, Magne; Aaberge, Rolf; Eika, Lasse; Langørgen, … - 2018
We examine how in-kind transfers provided by local governments affect economic inequality. The allocation of in … Norwegian data from municipal accounts and administrative registers for the period 1982- 2013. We find that economic inequality … contribution from public cash transfers. When examining the time trends in inequality, we find that local governments attenuated …
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