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The effect of child benefit on female labor supply
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/17, pp. 1-18
In 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor...
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Universal, targeted or both : effects of different child support policies on labour supply and poverty : a simulation study
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; D'Andria, Diego; Wiemers, Jürgen - 2022
augmented with endogenous labour supply and take-up choices (IAB-MSM). We distinguish between a reform of the universal non …-means-tested child benefit, a reform of the mean-tested child benefit under the minimum income scheme, and a combination of both. Since …Wir untersuchen hypothetische Reformen der wichtigsten Transferleistungen für Kinder in Deutschland: eine Reform des …
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Expanding the welfare system: a proposal for reform
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - In: The welfare state in Europe: Challenges and reforms, (pp. 101-117). 1998
The proposal involves the establishment of 'welfare accounts' for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
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A Continuous Model of Income Insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2008
We develop a simple yet realistic model of income insurance, where the individual's ability and willingness to work is treated as a continuous variable. In this framework, income insurance not only provides income smoothing, it also relieves the individual from particularly burdensome work. As a...
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A continuous theory of income insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270506
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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance
Lindbeck, Assar - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141884
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A continuous theory of income insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual’s health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual’s health sheds new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973490
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The labour supply effect of education maintenance allowance and its implications for parental altruism
Holford, Angus - 2014
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18 in post-compulsory full-time education. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England, we find an EMA payment of £30 per week reduces teenagers' labour supply by 3...
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The labour supply effect of education maintenance allowance and its implications for parental altruism
Holford, Angus - 2015
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...
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