-in-differences method, the impact of tax incentives on employment rates of elderly workers. After this background, we ponder possibilities … tax credit at families and low-income workers, lowering the top marginal tax rates, and maintaining the tax incentives for …

through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … almost all benefit recipients, but weak work incentives exist for those receive Housing Benefit, and for primary earners in … couples who have low earnings. Recent reforms to strengthen work incentives have altered the in-work tax credits, rather than …

In this paper we study the impact of tax-benefit systems on income inequality and work incentives across the 27 Member … Tax Rates.The extent to which tax-benefit systems contribute to income redistribution and provide work incentives at the … of a trade-off between income redistribution and work incentives across EU-27 countries. …

assistance. As an alternative, we analyze a reform proposal which reduces financial incentives for marginal employment not … modest positive labor supply effects, a relatively large number of households would suffer income losses. -- work incentives …

assistance. As an alternative, we analyze a reform proposal which reduces financial incentives for marginal employment not … modest positive labor supply effects, a relatively large number of households would suffer income losses. -- work incentives …

. This implies increasing social transfers for working and nonworking households, while protecting work incentives. In this … maintaining the existing average labour market participation incentives at the bottom of the income distribution. We do it in … three of the most developed welfares states of the EU, representing different welfare regimes, namely Belgium, Denmark and …