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Income Maintenance Programs and Multidimensional Screening
Shapiro, Joel - 2002
depends on the distribution of population characteristics. A policy of workfare (unpaid public sector work) is inefficient …
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Social security transfers and the marginal cost of public funds
Bjertnæs, Geir H. M. - 2015
Recent estimates of the marginal cost of public funds differ substantially. Some studies argue that the efficiency cost of taxation counter the welfare gain connected to redistribution of income. Hence, the efficiency cost of taxation should not be included as a cost of public goods provision....
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Some Issues Related to the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off in the Swedish Tax and Transfer System
Strand, Henning - 1999
The Swedish universal welfare model relies on a high tax level to finance a variety of transfers to the workingage population both in the form of income replacements and income supplements and as services for health-, child- and elderly care. The available evidence, reviewed in this Working...
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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 combined with administrative data. Arguably, most of the distributional studies of that kind focus on social welfare defined as a function - typically inequality or poverty...
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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2020
Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...
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Distributional Effects of Optimal Commodity Taxes Combined with Minimum Income Programs in Brazil
Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda; Fiuza, Eduardo P.S; … - 2003
Commodity taxes play an important role in Brazil and raise around 60% of the total tax revenue. This heavy reliance renders commodity taxation one of the main tools available to the government for collecting revenue and securing redistribution. In fact, Brazilian income inequity is one of the...
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On the Optimal Design of Transfers and Income-Tax Progressivity
Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Navarro, Gaston; … - 2022
We study the optimal design of means-tested transfers and progressive income taxes. In a simple analytical model, we demonstrate an optimally negative relation between transfers and income-tax progressivity due to efficiency and redistribution concerns. In a rich dynamic model, we quantify the...
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Labor market policies, unemployment, and identity : policies to help the unemployed can affect feelings of identity and well-being, so measures need to be evaluated carefully
Schöb, Ronnie - 2016
, workfare may not provide the intended incentives, and flexicurity (a system that combines a flexible labor market with active …
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Labor market policies, unemployment, and identity : policies to help the unemployed can affect feelings of identity and well-being, so measures need to be evaluated carefully
Schöb, Ronnie - 2022
, measures that require some work or attendance for training from those receiving benefits (workfare) may not provide the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254443
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Does workfare work well? : the case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh
Cho, Yoonyoung; Ruthbah, Ummul - 2018
Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the … evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …'s efficiency. Moreover, further evidence is required on the impacts of work experience through workfare on subsequent labor market …
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