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Means-Tested Transfers in the US: Facts and Parametric Estimates
Guner, Nezih; Rauh, Christopher; Ventura, Gustavo - 2024
How substantial are means-tested transfers in the United States? How have these transfers evolved over time, and what is their impact on the income distribution? We use microdata from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to document the scope of the main means-tested programs for...
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Childcare Subsidies and Household Labor Supply
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2014
What would be the aggregate effects of adopting a more generous and universal childcare subsidy program in the U.S.? We answer this question in a life-cycle equilibrium model with joint labor-supply decisions of married households along extensive and intensive margins, heterogeneity in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398322
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Demographic divide and labor migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region
Tosun, Mehmet S. - 2011
found that such tax can raise substantial tax revenue for the SMCs which could be used to enhance human capital in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282460
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Childcare Subsidies and Household Labor Supply
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
What would be the aggregate effects of adopting a more generous and universal childcare subsidy program in the U.S.? We answer this question in a life-cycle equilibrium model with joint labor-supply decisions of married households along extensive and intensive margins, heterogeneity in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795361
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Demographic Divide and Labor Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Tosun, Mehmet S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
found that such tax can raise substantial tax revenue for the SMCs which could be used to enhance human capital in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386633
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Bequest Division: The Roles of Parental Motives and Children's Gender Composition
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Olivera, Javier; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2025
Drawing on two data sources from across Europe, we show that both bequest motives of parents and children's gender composition shape unequal divisions of bequests. First, the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe reveals that observed bequests are divided unequally when children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015409270
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The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply
Caliendo, Marco; Gambaro, Ludovica; Haan, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages by analysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on micro data for Germany (SOEP) we show that joint income taxation in Germany which discriminates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761896
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Alternative basic income mechanisms: an evaluation exercise with a microeconometric model
Colombino, Ugo; Locatelli, Marilena; Narazani, Edlira; … - 2010
, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue (fiscal neutrality), the effects of various hypothetical tax … to the current tax-transfer systems. The exercise can be considered as one of empirical optimal taxation, where the … basic income (Universal or Participation Basic Income) and adopting progressive tax-rules. If - besides the fiscal …
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Overtime Work Dual Job Holding and Taxation
Frederiksen, Anders; Graversen, Ebbe Krogh; Smith, Nina - 2001
Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on hours and wages in overtime work and second job which is merged to detailed register information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262528
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Accounting for family background when designing optimal income taxes: a microeconometric simulation analysis
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2009
Italy is employed to simulate and identify income tax-transfer rules that are optimal according to the extended EOp … criterion. We look for second-best optimality, i.e. the tax-transfer rules are not allowed to depend on family background, they … individualized) lump-sum transfer (positive or negative) and by one or two marginal tax rates. A rather striking result of the …
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