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Changes in income distributions and the role of tax-benefit policy during the Great Recession : an international perspective

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …

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No claim, no pain : measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2010

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...

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Learning from the "best" : the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2018

developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

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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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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time: Ireland 1987 - 2005

Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...

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In-work transfers in good times and bad : simulations for Ireland

Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009

poverty effects of alternative policies are analyzed thanks to counterfactual simulations built using a micro-simulation model … in the minimum wage. -- Microsimulation ; working poor ; welfare ; labour supply ; take-up …

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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? : evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state

Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2009

There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our...

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Happy taxpayers? : income taxation and well-being

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2012

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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Peer effects in program participation

Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - 2012

The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. We overcome these identification issues in the context of...

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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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