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ENDOGENOUS FERTILITY AND THE DESIGN OF FAMILY TAXATION
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2000
The paper innovates on the existing optimal taxation literature by taking fertility as endogenous, and allowing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518893
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Optimal Redistribution: Rising Inequality vs. Rising Living Standards
Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024
standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047233
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Optimal redistribution : rising inequality vs. rising living standards
Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024
standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551008
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The Old-Age Pension Household Replacement Rate in Belgium
Brown, Alessio J.G.; Fraikin, Anne-Lore - 2022
-age poverty and inequality measures. To do so, we use the survey dataset SHARE and a discrete time logistic duration model to … the household replacement rate plays an important role in decreasing the elderly poverty rate. Since households with … the household replacement rate on poverty measures is a motive to use such mechanism as a poverty alleviation tool …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801011
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Getting tired of work, or re-tiring in absence of decent job opportunities? : some insights from an estimated random utility/random opportunity model on Belgian data
Capéau, Bart; Decoster, André - 2016
This paper exploits the distinction between preference and opportunity factors in a Random Utility and Random Opportunity (RURO) model of job choice (Aaberge, Dagsvik and Strøm, 1995, and Aaberge, Colombino and Strøm, 1999). We estimate the model on Belgian data (SILC 2007). To investigate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537149
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In-Work Tax Credits in Belgium : An Analysis of the Jobkorting Using a Discrete Labour Supply Model
Vanleenhove, Pieter - 2011
In line with the Earned Income Tax Credit in the United States and the Working Family Tax Credit in the United Kingdom, the Flemish government implemented in 2007 a similar in-work tax credit in order to increase the employment rate and to make working financially more attractive. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118688
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Welfare Effects of Alternative Financing of Social Security : Some Calculations for Belgium
Capéau, Bart - 2008
We analyse the distributional impact of lowering social security contributions and compensating the revenue loss by an increase in indirect taxes. We empirically assess the distributional consequences of this shift by using two Belgian microsimulation models: MODEacute;TEacute; for the tax benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724409
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The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Fraikin, Anne-Lore - 2022
-age poverty and inequality measures. To do so, we use the survey dataset SHARE and a discrete time logistic duration model to … the household replacement rate plays an important role in decreasing the elderly poverty rate. Since households with … the household replacement rate on poverty measures is a motive to use such mechanism as a poverty alleviation tool …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801885
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Financial work incentives and the long-term unemployed : the case of Belgium
Collado, Diego - 2018
individual changes over time and focused on the long-term unemployed (LTU). In Belgium the long-term unemployment rate is high … and the household incomes of many LTU are below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. Policy proposals aiming to improve this … in Belgium. During these years there were policy changes that affected work incentives and thus contribute to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864833
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Heterogeneity and long-run changes in U.S. hours and the labor wedge
Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2012
From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291940