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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries
Bibi, Sami (contributor); Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777874
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An econometric analysis of the impact of the self-sufficiency project on the employment behaviour of former welfare recipients
Zabel, Jeffrey Edward (contributor);  … - 2006
; in-work benefit ; Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323168
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State dependence in Canadian welfare participation
Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model … differences in social assistance participation. The empirical results indicate that a "welfare trap" does exist in Canada, but the … conditions ; transition ; Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359298
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Estimating labor supply responses and welfare participation : using a natural experiment to validate a structural labor supply model
Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2011
In this paper, we formulate and estimate an economic model of labor supply and welfare participation. The model is estimated on data on single men from Quebec drawn from the 1986 Canadian Census. Budget sets for each work-welfare combination - accounting for income taxes, tax credits and welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306836
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Self-selection, immigrant public finance performance and Canadian citizenship
DeVoretz, Don J. (contributor); Pivnenko, Sergiy (contributor) - 2005
Canada's treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002551506
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Welfare versus work under a Negative Income Tax: evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
The Income Maintenance Experiments have received renewed attention due to growing international interest in a Basic Income. Proponents viewed a Negative Income Tax as a replacement for traditional welfare with stronger work incentives and reduced poverty. However, existing labor supply estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596048
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Is there a tradeoff between ethnic diversity and redistribution? : the case of income assistance in Canada
Green, David A.; Riddell, William Craig - 2019
impacts on public opinion are important enough to influence policy is unclear. Many scholars argue that Canada is an exception … dramatic growth in the ethnic and cultural diversity of Canada's immigrant inflows in recent decades, but the extent of this … case the estimated effects are small. Our study thus supports the view that Canada's experience stands as an example in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974385
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Marriage, divorce and interstate risk sharing
Halla, Martin (contributor); Scharler, Johann (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760281
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The economic growth impact of hurricanes : evidence from US coastal counties
Strobl, Eric (contributor) - 2008
We estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a hurricane destruction index that is based on a monetary loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003744490
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Unintended effects of national-based active labour market policies
Altavilla, Carlo; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto - 2009
Labour market policies settled at national level imply a "one-size-fits-all" labour market strategy. This strategy might not sufficiently take into account region-specific economic structures. In this paper we employ a panel factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) to evaluate whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818062