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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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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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Learning from the "best" : the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2018
developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955580
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Learning from the "best" : the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2019
developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966797
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Combining microsimulation and optimization to identify optimal flexible tax-transfer rules
Colombino, Ugo; Islam, Nizamul - 2020
We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal … inequality aversion parameter, the optimized rules provide a higher social welfare than the current rule, with the exception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228537
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Labour supply models
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517987
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Structural labour supply models and microsimulation
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870356
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In-work transfers in good times and bad : simulations for Ireland
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009
poverty effects of alternative policies are analyzed thanks to counterfactual simulations built using a micro-simulation model … in the minimum wage. -- Microsimulation ; working poor ; welfare ; labour supply ; take-up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928130
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Combining microsimulation and optimization to identify optimal flexible tax-transfer rules
Colombino, Ugo; Islam, Nizamul - 2020
We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal … inequality aversion parameter, the optimized rules provide a higher social welfare than the current rule, with the exception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253655