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Women's and men's responses to in-work benefits: The influence of younger children
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2014
This study examines how the non-targeted earned income tax credit (EITC) introduced in Sweden in 2007 has affected the … outcomes. Using a structural discrete labor supply model for two adult households, we estimate the impact of the EITC on both …
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Women's and men's responses to in-work benefits: The influence of children
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-24
This study examines how the Swedish earned income tax credit (EITC) introduced in 2007 affected the labor supply of men … the EITC is non-targeted in Sweden, it is difficult to form a meaningful comparison group for a regular ex-post quasi … household. In a second step, the labor supply model is used to simulate the labor supply responses to the EITC. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606585
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Women's and men's responses to in-work benefits : the influence of children
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-24
This study examines how the Swedish earned income tax credit (EITC) introduced in 2007 affected the labor supply of men … the EITC is non-targeted in Sweden, it is difficult to form a meaningful comparison group for a regular ex-post quasi … household. In a second step, the labor supply model is used to simulate the labor supply responses to the EITC. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446456
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Der Zugang von Arbeitnehmern in den Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld II
Aldashev, Alisher; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2009
Diese Arbeit untersucht die erwerbsfÄahig eingestuften Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II, die mindestens einmal Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 bezogen haben. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass 16% der Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 während des Zeitraums 2000...
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State Dependence in Welfare Benefits in a Non-Welfare Context
Ayhan, Sinem H.; Pelek, Selin - 2015
This study contributes to the ongoing debate about welfare dependency centered on the western societies through an empirical analysis, within the context of a developing country. It examines state dependence in social assistance benefit receipt using longitudinal data from Turkey, where benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420734
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Never give up? The persistence of welfare participation in Sweden
Andrén, Thomas; Andrén, Daniela - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
Long-term social assistance dependency is a growing concern in Sweden and other European countries. In order for policy makers to design effective welfare reforms it is important to know how strong the state dependence associated with social assistance is in the population and to what extent it...
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Targeting of social transfers: Are India's elderly poor left behind?
Asri, Viola - 2017
Whether social transfers should be targeted or universal is an unsolved debate that is particularly relevant for the implementation of social protection schemes in developing countries. While the limited availability of public resources encourages targeting, the difficulty in identifying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853009
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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation: the role of entry and exit rates
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2006
This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...
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State dependence in Canadian welfare participation
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zhang, Xuelin - 2006
This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267972
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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001
This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274099