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Tax-Benefits Reforms and the Labor Market : Evidence from Belgium and Other EU Countries
Orsini, Kristian - 2007
and Belgium, focusing in particular on the reforms carried out in the latter. The potential labor supply effect of the … determining the incentives to take up work; (iii) joint assessment of income for both purposes of taxation and benefit eligibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731803
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Inheritance taxation and wealth effects on the labor supply of heirs
Kindermann, Fabian; Mayr, Lukas; Sachs, Dominik - 2018
The taxation of bequests can have a positive impact on the labor supply of heirs through wealth effects. This leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919449
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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298903
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform
Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2008
-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297991
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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305299
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Getting the Poor to Work : Three Welfare Increasing Reforms for a Busy Germany
Jessen, Robin - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017226
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform
Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098104
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Empirical welfare analysis in random utility models of labour supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008827011
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A switch from joint to individual taxation is welfare improving
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2011
In this paper we empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint taxation with full income splitting to a … revenue neutral system of individual taxation in Germany. For the empirical welfare evaluation we estimate the preference … welfare measure we use, individual taxation would on average increase individual welfare. Moreover, as far as the aggregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579606
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Empirical welfare analysis with preference heterogeneity : conference paper
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2013
We apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of preference heterogeneity, derived from structural labour supply models. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341149