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Alternative tax-benefit strategies to support children in Poland

Levy, Horacio (contributor); Morawski, Leszek (contributor); … - 2008

Eurostat data shows that children and elderly are especially at risk of being in poverty. In 2004 the average rates of poverty risk in the European Union for these groups were about 19%. In Poland, the rate was 29% for children and only 7% for the elderly. We examine the role of the tax-benefit...

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Child poverty and child benefits in the European Union

Immervoll, Herwig; Sutherland, Holly; Vos, Klaas de - 2000

Using evidence from the European Community Household Panel we find that family benefits vary in their importance to household incomes and in the prevention of child poverty across Europe. In one group of countries family benefits appear to have a significant effect on the protection of children...

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Could a universal family payment improve gender equity and reduce child poverty in Australia? : a microsimulation analysis

Hayes, Philip; Redmond, Gerry - 2014

The Australian income tax and transfer system has undergone considerable reform since the mid 1980s. As a number of commentators have pointed out, one impact of reforms to cash transfers for families, as well as of some reforms to direct taxes, has been the evolution of a defacto system of...

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Interactions between policy effects, population characteristics and the tax-benefit system : an illustration using child poverty and child related policies in Romania and the Czech...

Avram, Silvia; Militaru, Eva - 2015

We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the income distribution and poverty risk of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of the policy design itself, size of the benefits and the interaction between policies and population...

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Credit crunched : single parents, universal credit and the struggle to make work pay

Brewer, Mike; De Agostini, Paola - 2015

This paper examines the likely impact of Universal Credit on the incomes and work incentives of single parent families. Using the UK module of EUROMOD (version F6.20), we also simulate how single parents' household income, and their work incentives, would change following adjustments to the...

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Distributional impacts of cash allowances for children : a microsimulation analysis for Russia and Europe

Popova, Daria - 2014

This paper analyses programmes of cash allowances for children and compares their effectiveness in combating child poverty in Russia and four EU countries Sweden, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom. These countries are selected as representatives of alternative family policy models. Using...

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Impact assessment of alternative reforms of child allowances using RUSMOD : the static tax-benefit microsimulation model for Russia

Popova, Daria - 2013

RUSMOD is a static tax-benefit microsimulation model for Russia. The model can be used for ex post and ex ante evaluation of reforms of personal income taxation and social benefits in Russia. In addition, being compatible with EUROMOD, the Russian model is suitable for simulation of...

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The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction : the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives

Collado, Diego; Cantillon, Béa; Van den Bosch, Karel; … - 2017

three of the most developed welfares states of the EU, representing different welfare regimes, namely Belgium, Denmark and …

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To what extent do welfare states compensate for the cost of children? : a hypothetical household approach to policy evaluations

Penne, Tess; Hufkens, Tine; Goedemé, Tim; Storms, … - 2018

In order to alleviate child poverty, contemporary European welfare states have shifted their focus increasingly towards … child-centred investment strategies. However, studies assessing the generosity of welfare states to families with children … welfare states by making use of cross-nationally comparable reference budgets, while taking into account publicly-provided or …

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Reducing the income tax burden for households with children : an assessment of the child tax credit reform in Austria

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Varga, Janos - 2020

This paper analyses the impact of the implementation of a child tax credit in Austria in 2019, both on micro and macro level. First, we assess the fiscal and distributional impact of this reform using EUROMOD. Second, we estimate labour supply impacts of the reform based on a structural discrete...

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