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Wage subsidies, work incentives, and the reform of the Austrian welfare system
Steiner, Viktor; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2010
assistance. As an alternative, we analyze a reform proposal which reduces financial incentives for marginal employment not … modest positive labor supply effects, a relatively large number of households would suffer income losses. -- work incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664559
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Wage subsidies, work incentives, and the reform of the Austrian welfare system
Steiner, Viktor; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2010
assistance. As an alternative, we analyze a reform proposal which reduces financial incentives for marginal employment not … modest positive labor supply effects, a relatively large number of households would suffer income losses. -- work incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008850
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Reducing the income tax burden for households with children : an assessment of the child tax credit reform in Austria
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Vargas, Janos - 2019
This paper analyses the impact of the implementation of a child tax credit in Austria in 2019, not only on micro, but also on macro level by using a dynamic scoring methodology. First, we assess the fiscal and distributional impact of this reform using the microsimulation model EUROMOD. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154574
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Reducing the income tax burden for households with children : an assessment of the child tax credit reform in Austria
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Varga, Janos - 2020
This paper analyses the impact of the implementation of a child tax credit in Austria in 2019, not only on micro, but also on macro level by using a dynamic scoring methodology. First, we assess the fiscal and distributional impact of this reform using the microsimulation model EUROMOD. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156933
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Reducing the income tax burden for households with children : an assessment of the child tax credit reform in Austria
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Varga, Janos - 2020
This paper analyses the impact of the implementation of a child tax credit in Austria in 2019, both on micro and macro level. First, we assess the fiscal and distributional impact of this reform using EUROMOD. Second, we estimate labour supply impacts of the reform based on a structural discrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175967
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The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction : the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives
Collado, Diego; Cantillon, Béa; Van den Bosch, Karel; … - 2017
. This implies increasing social transfers for working and nonworking households, while protecting work incentives. In this … maintaining the existing average labour market participation incentives at the bottom of the income distribution. We do it in … three of the most developed welfares states of the EU, representing different welfare regimes, namely Belgium, Denmark and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011676005
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As SIMPL As That : Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland
Bargain, Olivier; Morawski, Leszek; Myck, Michal; … - 2021
The Polish tax and benefit system is presented in the context of a recently developed microsimulation model, SIMPL. The model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is based on the Household Budgets Survey data (Badania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316856
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Uncontrolled Experiments from the Laboratories of Democracy : Traditional Cash Welfare, Federalism, and Welfare Reform
Gelbach, Jonah B. - 2016
In this chapter I discuss the history and basic incentive effects of two key U.S. cash assistance programs aimed at families with children. Starting roughly in the 1980s, critics of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program argued that the program -- designed largely to cut...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983386
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Investing in Infants : The Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families
Barr, Andrew C.; Eggleston, Jonathan; Smith, Alexander A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child's outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362027
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Earned Income Tax Credit in Israel : Designing the System to Reflect the Characteristics of Labor Supply and Poverty
Brender, Adi - 2006
This study examines the desired parameters for the institution of an earned income tax credit (EITC) - a subsidy for low wage earners - in Israel. The goal of the system would be to encourage individuals with low earning potential to enter the labor market and to reduce poverty among households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779736