To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, wesuggest a methodology based on …-benefitstructure (rules, rates, etc.), changes in nominal levels of market incomes and tax-benefitparameters (benefit amounts, tax bands, etc …

, existing evidence does not make full use of the information recorded by benefit agencies. Most studies have to rely on … interview-based data, with misreporting and measurement errors affecting the variables needed to establish both benefit receipt … and benefit entitlement. In this paper, we exploit a unique combination of Finnish administrative data and eligibility …

For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from … simulations in a formal framework based on the Shapley value decomposition and quantify the relative roles of (i) tax-benefit …

In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain … causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients … by collecting 31 cents more from other social assistance programs. This benefit-substitution effect declines somewhat …

the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with … are not related to unemployment benefit generosity. This suggests that the so-called "welfare migration" debate is …