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Optimal disability assistance when fraud and stigma matter
Jacquet, Laurence - 2006
stigma disutility increases with the number of non-disabled recipients. Tagging transfers according to disability … work due to either disability or distaste for work. Taxpayers have resentment against inactive benefit recipients because … characteristics decreases stigma. However, tagging is costly and imperfect. In this context, I show how the level of the per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940712
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Optimal disability assistance when fraud and stigma matter
Jacquet, Laurence - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2006
stigma disutility increases with the number of non-disabled recipients. Tagging transfers according to disability … work due to either disability or distaste for work. Taxpayers have resentment against inactive benefit recipients because … characteristics decreases stigma. However, tagging is costly and imperfect. In this context, I show how the level of the per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688550
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009
and Dutch workers have relatively low working hours. Disability is high, particularly among young individuals. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273960
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009
and Dutch workers have relatively low working hours. Disability is high, particularly among young individuals. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502567
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Replicator evolution of welfare stigma : welfare fraud vs. incomplete take-up
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2020
There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible … coexistence of welfare fraud and incomplete take-up is unstable in the model of statistical discrimination view welfare stigma … the tax-payer resentment view welfare stigma suggested by Besley and Coate (1992). We find multiple stable equilibria in …
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Assessing welfare accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002
The Paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332697
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Tax exemptions in excise duty in the context of fiscal efficiency
Sygut, Edyta - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 14 (2018) 2, pp. 47-57
The basic function of taxes is the fiscal function, which consists in collecting revenue by public authorities. The imposition of non-fiscal functions on taxes causes the weakening of their basic function. The purpose of the article is to present tax exemptions, as well as to assess the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011842
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The Role of Corporate Taxation in a Large Welfare State
Keuschnigg, Christian - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 145 (2009) 4, pp. 443-452
In comparing the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment, the paper derives four main results: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion, the unemployment rate and the excess burden of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933207
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Corporate taxation and the welfare state
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2009
The paper compares the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264567
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Assessing welfare accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265550