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How reliable are social safety nets? : value and accessibility in situations of acute economic need

Immervoll, Herwig; Hyee, Raphaela; Fernández, Rodrigo; … - 2022

Social protection systems use a range of entitlement criteria. First-tier support typically requires contributions or past employment in many countries, while safety net benefits are granted on the basis of need. In a context of volatile and uncertain labour markets, careful and continuous...

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Tax evasion, welfare fraud, and "the broken windows" effect : an experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Riedl, Arno; … - 2011

In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare behavior regarding tax evasion and welfare dodging, with and without information about others' behavior. Subjects have to decide between a 'registered' income, the realization of which...

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Can contracts signal social norms? : experimental evidence

Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013

We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...

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Alternative basic income mechanisms : an evaluation exercise with a microeconometric model

Colombino, Ugo; Locatelli Biey, Marilena; Narazani, Edlira - 2010

We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue...

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Minimum-income benefits in OECD countries : policy design, effectiveness and challenges

Immervoll, Herwig - 2009

Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at...

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Wage subsidies, work incentives, and the reform of the Austrian welfare system

Steiner, Viktor; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2010

We analyze the labor supply and income effects of a needs-based minimum benefit system ("Bedarfsorientierte Mindestsicherung") to be introduced in Austria by the end of this/beginning of next year. The aim of this reform is to reduce poverty as well as increasing employment rates of recipients...

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The anatomy of behavioral responses to social assistance when informal employment is high

Bergolo, Marcelo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2016

The disincentive effects of social assistance programs on registered employment are a first order policy concern in developing countries. Means tests determine eligibility with respect to some income threshold, and governments can only verify earnings from registered employment. The loss of...

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The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes

Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023

Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses...

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Complex tax incentives : an experimental investigation

Abeler, Johannes; Jäger, Simon - 2013

How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The...

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Stigma and take-up of labor market assistance : evidence from two field experiments

Osman, Adam; Speer, Jamin D. - 2023

Aversion to "stigma" - disutility associated with a program or activity due to beliefs about how it is perceived - may … randomized field experiments, we show that stigma can affect consequential labor market decisions. Treatments designed to … alleviate stigma concerns about taking entry-level jobs - such as how those jobs are perceived by society - had small average …

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