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Trapped in inactivity? : the Austrian social assistance reform in 2019 and its impact on labour supply

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia - 2020

Financial incentives affect the labour supply decisions of households, but typically the impact of such incentives varies significantly across household types. While there is a substantial literature on the labour supply effects of tax reforms and in-work benefits, the impact of changes in...

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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

How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty threshold of the EU, countries must...

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The effects of a hybrid negative income tax on poverty and inequality : a microsimulation on the UK and Italy

Tromp, Alexander - 2017

This paper aims to propose a social protection system that "decommodifies" labour and fulfills the properties of a Social Protection Floor satisfying revenue-neutrality. To this end, firstly, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme is explored. Secondly, the UBI is transformed into a Negative...

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The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe : the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies

Popova, Daria; Navickė, Jekaterina - 2019

poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which … results. We show that the degree of income replacement provided by the welfare state is higher for childbirth than for divorce … in the liberal regimes. The same is true for the post-divorce poverty rates. Moreover, our findings confirm that 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

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Welfare reform in European countries : a micro-simulation analysis

Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Thustrup, Claus - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The joint decision of female labour supply and childcare in Italy under costs and availability constraints

Figari, Francesco; Narazani, Edlira - 2017

It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behaviour applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of...

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What's best for women : gender based taxation, wage subsidies or basic income?

Colombinoa, Ugo; Narazani, Edlira - 2013

Gender based taxation (GBT) has been recently proposed as a promising policy in order to improve women's status in the labour market and within the family. We use a microeconometric model of household labour supply in order to evaluate, with Italian data, the behavioural and welfare effects of...

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The anti-poverty marginal benefit of public funds

Collado, Diego - 2020

Policy makers are generally interested in both the anti-poverty impact and the efficiency of reforms. To connect these two dimensions, I measure the poverty gap change per unit of net revenue that tax-benefit reforms produce. To isolate the impact of reforms and account for labour supply...

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Non take up of social benefits in Greece and Spain

Matsaganis, Manos; Levy, Horacio; Flevotomou, Maria - 2010

Even though interest in non take up of social benefits is considerable in many European countries, the topic is under-researched in southern Europe. The paper provides preliminary estimates of the extent of non take up of two pairs of means-tested retirement benefits in Greece and Spain. The...

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