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Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

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Universal basic income : inspecting the mechanisms

Jaimovich, Nir; Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Setty, Ofer; … - 2022

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Policy feedback and civic engagement : evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment

Hirvonen, Salomo; Schafer, Jerome; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023 - May 2023 (previous version November 2022)

In many democracies, unemployed and low-income citizens are less willing to vote. Can unconditional cash transfers weaken the link between income and turnout? We study a unique experiment in Finland, which randomly assigned a sizable group of unemployed to basic income for two years (2017-19)....

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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

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