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A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD
Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - 2009
The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331402
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A good time for making work pay? : Taking stock of in-work benefits and related measures across the OECD
Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - 2009
The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936137
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A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD
Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632735
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A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD
Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2009
The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962738
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Internationale Vergleiche beim Mindestlohn
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 21 (2014) 04, pp. 34-35
Ab dem 1.Januar 2015 soll in Deutschland ein flächendeckender Mindestlohn von 8,50 € gelten. Die Warnungen vor … in Großbritannien der Mindestlohn neu eingeführt, ohne dass es zu nennenswerten Verwerfungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt kam …. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Eingriffsintensität des deutschen Mindestlohns im internationalen Vergleich. Ein Mindestlohn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888429
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Internationale Vergleiche beim Mindestlohn
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 21 (2014) 4, pp. 34-35
Ab dem 1.Januar 2015 soll in Deutschland ein flächendeckender Mindestlohn von 8,50 € gelten. Die Warnungen vor … in Großbritannien der Mindestlohn neu eingeführt, ohne dass es zu nennenswerten Verwerfungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt kam …. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Eingriffsintensität des deutschen Mindestlohns im internationalen Vergleich. Ein Mindestlohn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733401
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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008
Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the bottom of the wage distribution. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803539
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Behavioural and welfare effects of basic income policies: A simulation for European countries
Colombino, Ugo; Locatelli, Marilena; Narazani, Edlira; … - 2008
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288294
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Five crossroads on the way to basic income : an Italian tour
Colombino, Ugo - 2014
The current Italian income support policies are defective with respect to both efficiency and equity. A more effective design must face five crucial choices: universal vs. categorical policies; transfers vs. subsidies; unconditional vs. means-tested policies; coverage; flat vs. progressive tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339564
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Behavioural and welfare effects of basic income policies : a simulation for European countries
Colombino, Ugo; Locatelli Biey, Marilena; Narazani, Edlira - 2008
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741770