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We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large reform from 2002. Our IV-estimates indicate that child care use causes an increase in the labor...
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benefits. We find that part-time work while receiving unemployment benefits is strongly concentrated in the service and social … implementation of earnings disregards in unemployment benefits and housing allowances, which allowed individuals to earn up to 300 … euros per month without reductions in their benefits. Using variation in the impact of the reforms on incentives between …
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Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cashflow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...
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on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution … at the structure of benefits, particularly unemployment benefits and public pensions are responsible for the inequality … reducing impact. More targeted benefits, however, do not significantly reduce income inequality. Rather, their positive effect …
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Polish experience and is also consistent with recent work in growth theory which suggests that redistribution that reduces …
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changes on the intrahousehold allocation of income. We also simulate the consequences of a policy change in the tax system. We … spouses. These differences in outcomes have consequences for the evaluation of policy changes in the tax system and shed light …
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household production and formal child care to the wage rate, the price of child care, taxes, benefits and child care subsidies … child care. A policy simulation suggests that labor force participation and hours of market work would increase … substantially in a fiscal system based solely on individual rather than joint taxation. -- time use ; income tax ; child care …
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Swedish inheritance tax reduced the equalizing inheritance effect but that the redistribution of tax revenues could reverse …
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Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
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We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over … the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and the payroll-tax schedules that affect … marginal net-of-income-tax rate is around 0.2, while we find no response to the marginal net-of-payroll-tax rate. The …
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