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In this report, we combine theory and empirical estimates for how labor earnings respond to changes in tax rates and unearned income. We use lottery winnings to obtain variation in unearned income and tax reforms to obtain variation in the net of tax rate. Combining this information with...
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' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program …. First, I find that while spousal labor supply responses to husbands' disability are small, wives spend a sizable amount of … households that incorporates husbands' disability status, wives' time allocation choices, health state dependent utility, and the …
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For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from … simulations in a formal framework based on the Shapley value decomposition and quantify the relative roles of (i) tax-benefit …
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The Swedish employment rate is high in an international comparison and has been rising during recent decades. This pattern is especially pronounced among the elderly and women and reflects labour supply behaviour in these groups. The policy survey in this report suggests that the main drivers of...
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destruction is fast and benefits are high. -- transition ; heterogeneous labor ; job creation ; unemployment benefit ; wage …
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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 … the benefit system, and recent reforms to the out-of-work benefits have involved toughening and extending job …
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This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
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changes during the last ten years in the Estonian benefit system have influenced the incentives. As Estonia belongs to the … increased average employment rates of the elderly, but also retirement through alternative schemes, most notably disability … pensions and early retirement pensions. In a few cases, the Estonian benefit schemes generate disincentives to seek for a job …
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is not regarded as outright fraud, but as a gradual adjustment of the willingness to go to work when income insurance is … norms. It also gives a rich view of the desirability of insurance in the first place. -- Moral hazard ; disability insurance …
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is not regarded as outright fraud, but as a gradual adjustment of the willingness to go to work when income insurance is … norms. It also gives a rich view of the desirability of insurance in the first place. -- moral hazard ; disability insurance …
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