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In-Work Benefits for Married Couples : An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy

De Luca, Giuseppe - 2013

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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Income Taxation, Transfers and Labour Supply at the Extensive Margin

Benczur, Peter - 2014

replaced by the difference between net wages and the amount of lost transfers due to taking up a job (gains to work). To … Budget Survey (HKF), we find that participation probabilities are strongly influenced by transfers and the gains to work … gains to work for low earners, making them even more responsive to wages and taxation. Overall, we find that a single …

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Non-take-up of in-work benefits : determinants, benefit erosion and indexing

Muñoz-Higueras, Diego; Köppe, Stephan; Granell, Rafael; … - In: Journal for labour market research 58 (2024) 1, pp. 1-19

Non-take-up of welfare schemes is a key concern of policy effectiveness. Building on studies that have shown the low take-up of minimum income schemes, our case study of Ireland's Working Family Payment is the first to analyse non-take-up of an in-work benefit and its determinants with a special...

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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...

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What do poor women want? : public employment or cash transfers? ; lessons from Argentina

Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012

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The redistributive impact of taxes and transfers

Joumard, Isabelle; Londoño Vélez, Juliana - 2013

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards. While most of the inequality originates from the labour market, wealth – and thus capital income – is also highly concentrated and the tax and transfer system has little...

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No claim, no pain : measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2009

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...

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The impact of medical and nursing home expenses and social insurance policies on savings and inequality

Kopecky, Karen A.; Koreshkova, Tatyana - 2010

We consider a life-cycle model with idiosyncratic risk in labor earnings, out-of-pocket medical and nursing home expenses, and survival. Partial insurance is available through welfare, Medicaid, and social security. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that 12 percent of aggregate...

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Non take up of social benefits in Greece and Spain

Matsaganis, Manos; Levy, Horacio; Flevotomou, Maria - 2010

Even though interest in non take up of social benefits is considerable in many European countries, the topic is under-researched in southern Europe. The paper provides preliminary estimates of the extent of non take up of two pairs of means-tested retirement benefits in Greece and Spain. The...

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In-work benefits for married couples : an ex-ante evaluation of EITC and WTC policies in Italy

De Luca, Giuseppe; Rossetti, Claudio; Vuri, Daniela - 2012

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 two in-work benefit schemes following the key principles of the Earned...

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