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Why minimum wage increases are a poor way to help the working poor
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2014
Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A...
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Tackling vulnerable households through a working tax credit scheme : a feasible alternative to cash transfers
Agostini, Claudio; Perticara, Marcela; Selman, Javiera - In: Hacienda pública española : review of public economics 245 (2023) 2, pp. 119-155
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The effect of the earned income tax credit in the district of Columbia on poverty and income dynamics
Hardy, Bradley L.; Muhammad, Daniel; Samudra, Rhucha - 2015
effect of the DC supplemental earned income tax credit (EITC) and the federal EITC on poverty and income dynamics within … Washington, DC, from 2001 to 2011. The EITC in DC merits investigation, as the DC supplement to the federal credit is the largest … in the nation. The supplemental DC EITC was enacted in 2000, and has been expanded from 10 percent of the federal credit …
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Effects of tax-benefit policies on the income distribution and work incentives in Estonia
Paulus, Alari; Klein, Caroline - 2019
The paper studies the impact of tax-benefit policies on the distribution of household incomes and work incentives in Estonia. It makes use of microsimulation modelling approach and applies the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to quantify the first-order effects of policy changes in 2016-2018 and of...
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The distributional impact of the minimum wage in the short and long run
Hurst, Erik; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Pastorino, Elena; … - 2022
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The US earned income tax credit, its effects, and possible reforms
Meyer, Bruce D. (contributor) - 2008
In this paper, I first summarize how the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) operates and describe the characteristics … of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its … effects on labor supply. Next, I discuss a few policy concerns about the EITC: possible negative effects on hours of work and …
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Joint taxation in Spain and its effects on social welfare : a microsimulation analysis
Badenes Plá, Nuria; Blanco Palmero, Patricia; … - 2020
This paper focuses on the study of the effects on social welfare generated by the scheme of joint taxation of the Spanish Personal Income Tax (PIT), whose peculiarity linked to its condition of optionality, allows the minimization of households´ tax bill. Different scenarios are simulated using...
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Reform proposal for marriage taxation in Germany : de facto income splitting with a low transferable amount
Bach, Stefan; Fischer, Björn; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 41/42, pp. 423-432
Two traditional options for reforming Ehegattensplitting, the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting, are de facto income splitting (Realsplitting) or individual taxation with a transferable personal allowance. However, these proposals do not significantly reduce the...
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Optimal family taxation and income inequality
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - In: International tax and public finance 25 (2018) 5, pp. 1093-1128
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