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-benefit systems ; microsimulation ; household labour supply ; multinomial logit ; involuntary unemployment ; double-hurdle …
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To tackle mass unemployment and increase participation rates, the German government over recent years has mainly focused on supply side strategies, including 'making work pay' policies. The 2003 Mini-Job reform introduced an extended subsidy of social security contributions for low wage workers....
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We assess the labor supply effects of two quot;making work payquot; reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favor of policies that distinguish between low effort and low productivity by targeting individuals with low wages rather than individuals with low earnings. In assessing the policies...
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This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa …. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and Expenditure Survey as it contains exclusive goods, i.e. goods consumed by …
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existing scheme, the Family Income Supplement (FIS), and of its replacement by the refundable tax credit in force in the UK …. Secondly, little is known about the impact of macro-level changes on the distribution of resources at the household level …
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