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What do poor women want? : public employment or cash transfers? ; lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485786
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What Do Poor Women Want? Public Employment or Cash Transfers? Lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111270
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Assessing the economic and social impact of tax and transfer system reforms : a general equilibrium microsimulation approach
Benczúr, Péter; Kátay, Gábor; Áron, Kiss - 2017
We present a general-equilibrium behavioural microsimulation model designed to assess long-run macroeconomic, fiscal …. General-equilibrium feedback effects are simulated by embedding microsimulation in a parsimonious macro model of a small open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054673
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Is Belgium 'making work pay'?
Orsini, Kristian - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2006
In the period 2001-2004 two major reforms followed in Belgium: a personal income tax reform (2001) and a reform of social security contributions for low skilled employees (2004). Using a discrete hours labor supply model, this paper assesses the impact of these reforms on aggregate labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200721
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Subsidies on low skilled's social security contributions: the case of Belgium
Dagsvik, John; Orsini, Kristian; Jia, Zhiyang - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2008
Belgium is characterised by a comparatively high tax wedge. Starting from the end of the 90’s there has been a growing concern over the effect of high labour costs on the employment of low skilled workers. One of the most innovative measures implemented by the federal government is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200728
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Tax-benefits reforms and the labor market: evidence from Belgium and other EU countries
Orsini, Kristian - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2006
During the last decade, several EU countries have tried to tackle unemployment and low activity rates through extensive tax cuts. In an effort to encourage the taking up of work – especially amongst the less productive workers – policymakers have shown increasing interest in targeted tax and...
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Is Belgium "Making Work Pay" ?
Orsini, Kristian - In: Brussels Economic Review 50 (2007) 2, pp. 193-220
In the period 2001-2004 two major reforms followed in Belgium: a personal income tax reform which included a new tax credit on low earnings (2001) and a reform of social security contributions for low wage employees (2004). Using a discrete hours labor supply model, this paper assesses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868102
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Labour Market Responses of Survival Pensioners : Estimating a Labour Supply Model and Predicting the Effect of the Reform
Decoster, André - 2009
protection' and the microsimulation model MIMOSIS to assess the labour supply effects of a reform of the rules for cumulating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721124
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The ifo Tax and Transfer Behavioral Microsimulation Model
Blömer, Maximilian; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
This paper describes the ifo Tax and Transfer Behavioral Microsimulation Model (ifoMSM-TTL), a policy microsimulation … Linked Employer-Employee Dataset. This microsimulation model consists of three components: First, a static module simulates … the labor market after the supply reactions. The demand module distinguishes our model from most other microsimulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257154
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ZEW-EviSTA : A Microsimulation Model of the German Tax and Transfer System
Buhlmann, Florian; Hebsaker, Michael; Kreuz, Tobias; … - 2022
This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030338