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Laun, Lisa - 2019

In-work benefits, often in the form of earned income tax credits (EITCs), have become increasingly popular over the last decades. Early versions of in-work benefits in the US, the UK and Ireland, primarily motivated as a poverty alleviation measure, have been followed by a large expansion of...

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Should the earned income tax credit rise for childless adults? : the earned income tax credit raises income and work incentives among low-income parents but little goes to adults w...

Holzer, Harry J. - 2023

The earned income tax credit provides important benefits to low-income families with children. At substantial costs (over $70 billion to the US federal government), it increases the incomes of such families while encouraging parents to work more by subsidizing their incomes. But low-income...

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Do in-work benefits work for low-skilled workers? : to boost the employment rate of the low-skilled trapped in inactivity is it sufficient to supplement their earnings?

Van der Linden, Bruno - 2016

High risk of poverty and low employment rates are widespread among low-skilled groups, especially in the case of some household compositions (e.g. single mothers). "Making-work-pay" policies have been advocated for and implemented to address these issues. They alleviate the above-mentioned...

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Do in-work benefits work for low-skilled workers? : to boost the employment rate of the low-skilled trapped in inactivity is it sufficient to supplement their earnings?

Van der Linden, Bruno - 2021

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Work, poverty, and social benefits over the past three decades

Barrow, Lisa; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Rivera, Bea - 2024

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Employment effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: taking the long view

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Strain, Michael R. - 2020

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the cornerstone U.S. anti-poverty program, typically lifting over 5 million … EITC contains strong incentives for non-workers to become employed. Most of the existing economics literature focuses on … federal EITC expansions in the 1980s and 1990s. This paper takes a longer view, studying all federal expansions since the …

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Beyond the EITC : the effect of reducing the earned income tax credit on labor force participation

Moulton, Jeremy Grant; Graddy-Reed, Alexandra; Lanahan, … - In: National tax journal 69 (2016) 2, pp. 261-284

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Hypothetical tax-benefit reforms in Hungary : shifting from tax relief to cash transfers for family support

Agúndez García, Ana; Christl, Michael - In: Eastern European economics : EEE 61 (2023) 6, pp. 723-746

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Do state earned income tax credits increase participation in the federal EITC?

Neumark, David; Williams, Katherine E. - In: Public finance review : PFR 48 (2020) 5, pp. 579-626

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First-time mothers and the labor market effects of the earned income tax credit

Shirley, Peter - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/7, pp. 1-53

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the largest anti-poverty programs in the United States, providing over … low-income workers, the EITC reduces poverty both directly through the credit itself and indirectly through labor supply … the fundamentally different incentives the EITC poses for single- and dual-earner households. However, as the EITC …

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