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Hypothetical tax-benefit reforms in Hungary : shifting from tax relief to cash transfers for family support

Agúndez García, Ana; Christl, Michael - 2023

This paper evaluates two hypothetical budget-neutral reforms that shift resources from family tax expenditures to … family cash transfers. We evaluate these reforms using a structural labor supply model based on the microsimulation EUROMOD …

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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, not only on micro, but also on macro level by using a dynamic scoring methodology. First, we assess the fiscal and distributional impact of this reform using the microsimulation model EUROMOD. Second,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156933

Fertility, family policy, and labor supply : quasi-experimental evidence from France

El-Mallakh, Nelly - 2021

, the paper finds that restricting family allowance eligibility criteria decreases fertility. The results also highlight …

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The (big) role of family constellations in return migration and transnationalism

Kopliku Dema, Bresena; Drishti, Elvisa - 2022

Purpose: The Albanian migration has always reflected a family character, be that before 1945 when Albania was not yet … of the family has been very important in making decisions regarding migration and answering questions from why to how to … family and kinship on decisions regarding return migration, the re-adjustment process, remigration or transnational life …

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Assessing the distributive effects of minimum wage

Borraz, Fernando; González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017

This paper analyzes the role of Uruguay's sharp minimum wage increases after 2004 amidst the country's slight wage inequality decrease. We found that the minimum wage increase has contributed to the reduction of wage inequality for formal workers mainly. However, we also found a negative impact...

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New Zealand's happiness and COVID-19 : a Markov Switching Dynamic Regression Model

Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2021

Happiness levels (states) are volatile and often fluctuate between a happy and unhappy state from one day to the next. The reasons for these shifts are mostly unobservable and not predictable. In this paper, we fit a Marko Switching Dynamic Regression Model (MSDR) to better understand the...

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Markov switching models for happiness during apandemic : the New-Zealand experience

Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna; … - 2020

This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and provides valuable information about its future evolution....

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Microsimulation analysis of optimal income tax reforms : an application to New Zealand

Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman; Hérault, Nicolas; Mok, Penny - 2018

This paper examines the optimal direction of marginal income tax reform in the context of New Zealand, which recently reduced its top marginal income tax rate to one of the lowest in the OECD. A behavioural microsimulation model is used, in which social welfare functions are defined in terms of...

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Nowcasting national GDP growth using small business sales growth

Guven, Cahit - 2022

This study shows that the Xero Small Business Index (XSBI) monthly sales growth data can be used to predict the same period's nominal gross domestic product (GDP) growth (year-on-year) in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.1 Assuming that the small business sector can be used as a...

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Birth order effects, parenting style, and son preference

Kim, Jun Hyung; Wang, Shaoda - 2021

While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes, there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects. We ftnd negative birth order effects among Chinese adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in...

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