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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 …

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The kindergarten attendance allowance in Hungary : an evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program

Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2013

This paper evaluates the kindergarten attendance allowance program in Hungary, a conditional cash transfer (CTT) program introduced in 2009 that aimed to increase kindergarten enrollment of disadvantaged children aged 3 and 4. Administration of the program was decentralized, and we make use of...

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Was ist von der Familienpolitik der Großen Koalition zu erwarten?

In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 2, pp. 87-102

Der Koalitionsvertrag sieht zwar keine weitreichenden familienpolitischen Maßnahmen vor. Allerdings sollen die Kindertagesbetreuung und das Elterngeld weiter ausgebaut werden. Damit folgt die Große Koalition zumindest teilweise einer Studie mehrerer Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute, die alle...

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Die sozioökonomischen Folgen eines einkommensabhängigen Kindergeldzuschlags : eine Mikrosimulation der "Grünen Kindergrundsicherung"

Otto, Birgit - 2002

Nach den Ergebnissen des ersten Armuts- und Reichtumsberichts der Bundesregierung ist das Armutsrisiko von Kindern unter 18 Jahren wesentlich höher als das anderer Altersgruppen. Um die überdurchschnittliche hohe Sozialhilfequote von Kindern zu senken, regten Bündnis 90/Die Grünen im...

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Fertility effects of child benefits

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2016

We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied substantially by household income and sibship size. We use these...

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Comparing in-work benefits and financial work incentives for low-income families in the US and the UK

Brewer, Mike - 2000

The goals of income transfer systems in the US and the UK for low-income families are to reduce poverty and welfare … combination of in-work benefits and welfare benefits produces a theoretical budget constraint with good financial incentives for … work incentives difficult. First, little is known about take-up rates of in-work and other welfare benefit rates in the US …

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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...

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Credit crunched : single parents, universal credit and the struggle to make work pay

Brewer, Mike; De Agostini, Paola - 2015

This paper examines the likely impact of Universal Credit on the incomes and work incentives of single parent families. Using the UK module of EUROMOD (version F6.20), we also simulate how single parents' household income, and their work incentives, would change following adjustments to the...

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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...

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The impact of the German child benefit on child well-being

Raschke, Christian - 2012

The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to investigate the extent to which these various changes have translated into an improvement in the...

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