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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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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...
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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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A continuous model of income insurance
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Persson, Mats (contributor) - 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...
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The importance of income-tested benefits in good times and bad : lessons from EU countries
Leventi, Chrysa; Rastrigina, Olga; Sutherland, Holly - 2016
Policy over the past years has seen a gradual movement away from universal social benefits towards the provision of more targeted benefit schemes. Using the European tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD, this paper aims to compare the effectiveness of income-tested benefits at different...
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Labour force participation elasticities and the move away from a flat tax : the case of Slovakia
Senaj, Matus; Siebertova, Zuzana; Svarda, Norbert; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 19, pp. 1-26
the elasticity with respect to a unique tax reform whereby the flat tax was backtracked and replaced by a progressive tax …
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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/10003978015