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Integrating indirect taxation into EUROMOD : documentation and results for Germany

Decoster, André; Ochmann, Richard R.; Spiritus, Kevin - 2013

benefits in the context of the European tax and benefit simulator, EUROMOD. Integration has been developed parallely for the … of Germany. An integrated data base underlying EUROMOD that contains household-level information on income and … imputations. As a result, status quo tax legislation is simulated in EUROMOD on imputed household spending, and incidence analysis …

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Trapped in inactivity? : social assistance and labour supply in Austria

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 48 (2021) 3, pp. 661-696

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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application

Basu, Kaushik; Lee, Travis - 2008

It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...

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Beyond GDP and Back: What Is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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Regional Unemployment and Norm-Induced Effects on Life Satisfaction

Chadi, Adrian - 2011

While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social-norm effect for the unemployed individual, who might suffer less when it is more common to be unemployed. This empirical study, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data...

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Predicting the Trend of Well-Being in Germany: How Much Do Comparisons, Adaptation and Sociability Matter?

Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2011

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the variation of subjective well-being experienced by Germans over the last two decades testing the role of some of the major correlates of people's well-being. Our results suggest that the variation of Germans' well-being...

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Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health

Shields, Michael A.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 2001

This paper explores the determinants of individuals? psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey for England data. We find evidence that our dependent variables, defined, respectively, from the GHQ12 and Perceived Social Support scores, are negatively related to household...

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Welfare to Temporary Work: Implications for Labor Market Outcomes

Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2002

Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the...

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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism

Carrington, William J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2002

Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload, even less is known about its impact on the experiences...

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The benefits of separating early retirees from the unemployed: simulation results for Belgian wage earners

Desmet, Raphaël; Jousten, Alain; Perelman, Sergio - 2005

by estimating a retirement probit model for older workers in Belgium. Based on these estimates, we then perform micro-simulations …

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