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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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The wage elasticity of recruitment

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Manning, Alan; … - 2022

One of the factors likely to affect the market power of employers is the sensitivity of the flow of recruits to the offered wage, but there is very little research on this. This paper presents a methodology for estimating the wage elasticity of recruitment and applies it to German data. Our...

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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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The distributional impact of in kind public benefits in European countries

Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2009

International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and … comparable methods and data. Inequality in the augmented income measure is dramatically lower than in disposable income, with the … eliminate it. -- Inequality ; in kind transfers ; cross-national comparisons …

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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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The impact of tax and transfer systems on children in the European Union

Corak, Miles (contributor); Lietz, Christine (contributor); … - 2005

, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal …

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The impact of local public services and geographical cost of living differences on poverty estimates

Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne; … - 2008

Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates. Unlike the standard approach in studies of the...

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Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe

Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007

household and to what extent taxes and benefits mitigate (or indeed exacerbate) any inequality of income between men and women …-benefit microsimulation model. This comparative perspective allows us to establish the relative effects of different policy regimes, given the … countries. -- Within-household inequality ; tax-benefit systems ; Europe ; gender …

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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries

Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006

-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social …-balancing social protection spending without necessarily compromising distributional objectives. -- inequality ; poverty ; social … protection ; ageing ; demographics ; microsimulation …

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