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Corporate taxation and the welfare state
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2009
The paper compares the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808645
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Tax policy reform and universal basic income effectiveness in a currency union : implications for long-term growth, inequality, and welfare
Kame Babilla, Thierry U. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 10 (2023), pp. 1-15
This paper aims to assess tax policy reforms that can sustain universal basic income programs and foster long-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government and economics' debate, we developed a Dynamic Stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014414077
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Does delay cause decay? : the effect of administrative decision time on the labor force participation and earnings of disability applicants
Autor, David H.; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer … appealing their denials, previous estimates of the benefit receipt effect are confounded with the effect of delays on subsequent …
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Active labor market policy evaluations : a meta-analysis
Card, David E. (contributor); Kluve, Jochen (contributor);  … - 2009
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811796
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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic countries? : evidence from Finnish register data
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2007
The non take-up of social assistance bene?ts due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty eÞect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both bene?t entitlement and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869844
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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour : a shapley decomposition
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870842
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Closing the gates? : evidence from a natural experiment on physicians' sickness certification
Markussen, Simen - 2009
This paper exploits a Norwegian physician directed reform aimed to reduce sick-leave. Physicians were required to consider part-time sick-leave as the default treatment and - in the case of long lasting full-time sick-leave - to file a report documenting why the worker was unable to perform any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872493
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An unconditional basic income in the family context : labor supply and distributional effects
Horstschräer, Julia; Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2010
In this paper we estimate the effects of an unconditional basic income on labor supply and income distribution with a special focus on the incentives to work in the family context. An unconditional basic income guarantees every citizen a minimum income without any means-testing. We simulate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702213
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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic Countries? : evidence from Finnish register data
Bargain, Olivier (contributor);  … - 2007
and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement and income levels used to assess eligibility. In this paper, we use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003616629
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Global food price shock and the poor in Egypt and Ukraine
Aboulenein, Soheir; El Laithy, Heba; Helmy, Omneia; … - 2010
The global food price shock of 2006-2008 has particularly affected poorer strata of populations in several developing countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and...
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