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Cash by Any Other Name? Evidence on Labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment

Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Blow, Laura; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2012

Standard economic theory implies that the labelling of cash transfers or cash-equivalents (e.g. child benefits, food …

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The Dynamics of Housing Allowance Claims in Sweden: A discrete-time hazard analysis

Chen, Jie - 2006

This paper analyses the dynamics of the duration of housing allowance claims in Sweden during the period 1991 to 2002. The central concern in this paper is whether the Swedish housing allowance system creates dependence on welfare. Using longitudinal data from Swedish micro database-LINDA, this...

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Aufkommens- und Verteilungseffekte der Unternehmensteuerreform 2008: eine Analyse mit dem Unternehmensteuer-Mikrosimulationsmodell BizTax

Bach, Stefan; Buslei, Hermann; Dwenger, Nadja; Fossen, … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 76 (2007) 2, pp. 74-85

simulation results confirm the government's estimation of the revenue effects to a large extent. While the reform reduces the tax …The DIW Berlin microsimulation model of business taxation BizTax allows a representative and detailed analysis of the … business tax files. We simulate essential elements of the business tax reform 2008 proposed by the German government. The …

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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries

Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight …

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Arbeitslosigkeit und soziale Sicherung

Homburg, Stefan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 72 (2003) 1, pp. 68-82

Die anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit hat verstärkt zu Diskussionen geführt, ob das Steuer-Transfer-System hierfür mitverantwortlich sei. Dabei wurde insbesondere auf die sehr hohe implizite Grenzbelastung im untersten Einkommensbereich hingewiesen. Als Alternativen wurden eine negative...

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Eine fiskalische Gesamtbilanz der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland

Bonin, Holger - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 71 (2002) 2, pp. 215-229

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die fiskalischen Gesamtwirkungen der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland mit Hilfe der demographisch basierten langfristigen Budgetmethode der Generationenbilanzierung. Zunächst wird für den Anfangsbestand der Einheimischen und Zuwanderer der Gegenwartswert aller individuell...

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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...

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Is there a Race-to-the-Bottom in the Setting of Welfare Benefit Levels? Evidence from a Policy Intervention

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin - 2004

In this paper we investigate whether local governments react on the welfare benefit levels in neighboring jurisdictions when setting their own benefit levels. We solve the simultaneity problem arising from the welfare game by utilizing a policy intervention; more specifically, we use a centrally...

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Social Assistance in Sweden 1990-1995

Arslanogullari, Sebastian - 2000

Despite being a very hot subject in the public debate, the causes behind the increase in social assistance (SA) in the 1990s are relatively unknown. In this paper, I try to investigate if the increase is in part a result of an increase in the propensity to receive SA. Despite what is usually...

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How Do Social Security and Income Affect the Living Arrangements of the Elderly? Evidence from Reforms in Mexico and Uruguay

Shinkai, Naoko - 2000

It has been shown that the social security system and other sorts of government transfers have helped poor elderly people, such as widows, to live alone in the U. S. This paper investigates whether government financial support contributed to the increase in the probability of the vulnerable...

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