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The impact of means tested assistance in Southern Europe
O'Donoghue, Cathal; Albuquerque, Jose; Baldini, Massimo; … - 2002
This paper aims to analyse the social assistance systems in five South European countries: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. After reviewing the existing system of social assistance in each country, we apply a consistent methodology in order to estimate its impact on income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238712
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Changes in income distribution and the role of tax-benefit policy during the great recession : an international perspective
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212556
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Changes in income distributions and the role of tax-benefit policy during the Great Recession : an international perspective
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212995
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Shifting taxes from labour to property : a simulation under labour market equilibrium
Coda Moscarola, Flavia; Colombino, Ugo; Figari, Francesco; … - 2014
effective income support and better incentives to work for low wage households and determines an improvement in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467825
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Shifting taxes from labour to property : a simulation under labour market equilibrium
Coda Moscarola, Flavia; Colombino, Ugo; Figari, Francesco; … - 2015
effective income support and better incentives to work for low wage households and determines an improvement in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477881
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Structural labour supply models and microsimulation
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2018
responses in microsimulation models. The paper focuses attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: the discrete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870677
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Changes in income distributions and the role of tax-benefit policy during the great recession : an international perspective
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2014
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242805
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Welfare analysis and redistributive policies
Bargain, Olivier - 2017
Applied welfare analyses of redistributive systems nowadays benefit from powerful tax benefit microsimulation programs … a function - typically inequality or poverty indices - of household equivalized income. In parallel, economic research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751671
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Rational poverty or poor rationality? : The take-up of social assistance benefits
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2000
In several countries social assistance dependence has been increasing since the 1980s. After surveying the theoretical and empirical take-up literature, this study presents estimates of recent rates of non take-up of social assistance benefits. Once methodological shortcomings of prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001473839
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No claim, no pain : measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2009
The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725469