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Welfare reform and the intergenerational transmission of dependence
Hartley, Robert Paul; Lamarche, Carlos; Ziliak, James P. - 2017
We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related … Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at different times starting in 1992, the cross-state variation over time … permits us to quasi-experimentally separate out the effect of mothers' welfare participation during childhood on daughters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716174
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Using linked survey and administrative data to better measure income : implications for poverty, program effectiveness and holes in the safety net
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2015
making it seem that welfare programs are less targeted to both the very poorest and middle income households than they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399523
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Child poverty and child benefits in the European Union
Immervoll, Herwig; Sutherland, Holly; Vos, Klaas de - 2000
Using evidence from the European Community Household Panel we find that family benefits vary in their importance to household incomes and in the prevention of child poverty across Europe. In one group of countries family benefits appear to have a significant effect on the protection of children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238716
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Fighting lone mothers' poverty through in-work benefits : methodological issues and policy suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786019
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Interactions between policy effects, population characteristics and the tax-benefit system : an illustration using child poverty and child related policies in Romania and the Czech...
Avram, Silvia; Militaru, Eva - 2015
We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the income distribution and poverty risk of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of the policy design itself, size of the benefits and the interaction between policies and population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498388
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In-work benefits for married couples : an ex-ante evaluation of EITC and WTC policies in Italy
Luca, Giuseppe; Rossetti, Claudio; Vuri, Daniela - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-24
This paper investigates labor supply and redistributive effects of in-work benefits for Italian married couples using a tax-benefit microsimulation model and a multi-sectoral discrete choice model of labor supply. We consider in-work benefits based on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480180
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Family Benefits and Poverty : The Case of Russia
Kolosnitsyna, Marina - 2017
25 years have passed since the beginning of market reforms in Russia. Like other post-soviet countries, in the early 1990s Russia faced a period of sharp decline in real household incomes. Then a gradual growth of population well-being began. However, income inequality was deep throughout this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962930
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Universal, targeted or both : effects of different child support policies on labour supply and poverty : a simulation study
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; D'Andria, Diego; Wiemers, Jürgen - 2022
We study a set of hypothetical reforms of child benefits in Germany, using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model augmented with endogenous labour supply and take-up choices (IAB-MSM). We distinguish between a reform of the universal non-means-tested child benefit, a reform of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191880
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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty Through In-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara - 2021
Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315723
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Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe
Matsaganis, Manos; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Levy, Horacio; … - 2021
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318671