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Can in-work benefits improve social inclusion in the Southern European countries?
Figari, Francesco - 2009
This paper analyses the effects of implementing a family-based and an individually-based in-work benefit in the Southern European Countries using EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax-benefit microsimulation model. In-Work Benefits (IWBs) are means-tested cash transfers given to individuals, through the tax...
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In-work benefits across Europe
Laun, Lisa - 2019
In-work benefits, often in the form of earned income tax credits (EITCs), have become increasingly popular over the last decades. Early versions of in-work benefits in the US, the UK and Ireland, primarily motivated as a poverty alleviation measure, have been followed by a large expansion of...
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The impact of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation in Europe
Ours, Jan C. van; Palali, Ali - 2017
Our paper investigates the effect of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation in eleven European countries. We … analyze longitudinal data of individuals by using information about their age of onset of smoking. We apply hazard rate models … to study smoking initiation. Thus, we are able to take into account observed and unobserved personal characteristics as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011699517
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Earned income tax credit policies : impact and optimality ; the Adam Smith lecture, 2005
Blundell, Richard W. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 13 (2006) 4, pp. 423-443
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003361995
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Pharmaceuticals : Access, Cost, Pricing, and Directions for the Future
Danzon, Patricia M. - 2011
Prescription drug expenditures make up less than 10 percent of total personal health care expenditures in the United States, but over the last decade the amount that Americans spend on prescription drugs has grown much faster than any other component of personal health care. For example, between...
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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK
Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022
This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...
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Towards a European Union child basic income? : within and between country effects
Levy, Horacio; Matsaganis, Manos; Sutherland, Holly - 2013
This paper explores the within and between country distributional implications of an illustrative Child Basic Income (CBI) operated at EU level. Using EUROMOD, we establish that a universal payment of €50 per month per child aged under 6 could take 800,000 children in this age group out of...
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The Evolving Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market : The Covid Motherhood Penalty
Fairlie, Robert W.; Couch, Kenneth A.; Xu, Huanan - 2022
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322220
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The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market : The COVID Motherhood Penalty
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2021
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323312
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The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market : The COVID Motherhood Penalty
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2022
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084037