Search Results - subject_exact:"Earned income tax credit" - EconBiz

Hungry no more? : the joint impact of minimum wages and the earned income tax credit on food insecurity

Lenhart, Otto; Chakraborty, Kalyan - 2025

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Work, poverty, and social benefits over the past three decades

Barrow, Lisa; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Rivera, Bea - 2024

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EITC participation results and IRS-Census match methodology, tax year 2021

Coleman, Ciyata D.; Hokayem, Charles; Kim, Sanghun; … - 2024

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

This paper studies how employment subsidies for start-ups shape their performance. We exploit an unexpected policy reform in Belgium that permanently exempted start-ups hiring their first employee from payroll taxes for that employee. Using firm-level administrative data and a...

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Wage Subsidies to Promote Female Hiring : Evidence from Pakistan

Bussolo, Maurizio; Lee, Jean; Mahmud, Mahreen; Sarma, … - 2026

Can employer-side wage subsidies increase hiring women in low female labor force participation settings? This paper tests this using a randomized experiment with 1,227 Pakistani firms on a national jobs platform. Treatment firms were offered a six-month wage subsidy determined via the...

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Permanent exemption from payroll taxes : the role of hiring frictions

Desiere, Sam; Oikonomou, Rigas; Toniolo, Tiziano; Van … - 2026

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Permanent exemption from payroll taxes : the role of hiring frictions

Desiere, Sam; Oikonomou, Rigas; Toniolo, Tiziano; Van … - 2026

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Permanent exemption from payroll taxes : the role of hiring frictions

Desiere, Sam; Oikonomou, Rigas; Toniolo, Tiziano; Van … - 2026

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The effects of training under the employment adjustment subsidy during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Japan

Higashi, Yudai; Sasaki, Masaru - 2026

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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? : experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2026

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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? : experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2020

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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? : experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2020

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Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex - 2020

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Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex - 2020

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Keeping heads above water : evidence from a labor retention scheme in response to floods in Brazil

Campante-Vale, Ricardo; Fontes, Luiz Felipe Campos; … - 2026

We study the labor market effects of a major flood disaster in Brazil and whether a temporary labor-retention scheme-Programa Emergencial de Apoio Financeiro (PEAF)-mitigated these effects by providing wage subsidies while requiring firms to retain covered workers. Drawing on administrative...

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The effects of a large place-based reduction of social security employers’ contributions : the case of Decontribuzione Sud

Albanese, Giuseppe; Ciani, Emanuele; Macci, Gabriele; … - 2026

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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and time spent helping and caring for adults

Wiersma Strauss, Anna - 2026

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Targeted impacts of salary subsidies : a developing country perspective

Ibourk, Aomar; El Aynaoui, Karim - 2025

Among the employability support programs, there are those that promote employability through training and those that offer wage subsidies to reduce costs. This study evaluates the impact of the Moroccan 'IDMAJ' program, which falls into the latter category. The results reveal a positive impact...

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The macroeconomic dynamics of labor market policies

Hurst, Erik; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Pastorino, Elena; … - 2025

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The Macroeconomic Dynamics of Labor Market Policies

Hurst, Erik; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Pastorino, Elena; … - 2025

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The macroeconomic dynamics of labor market policies

Hurst, Erik; Pastorino, Elena; Winberry, Thomas; Kehoe, … - 2023

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The macroeconomic dynamics of labor market policies

Hurst, Erik; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Pastorino, Elena; … - 2025

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Too much of a good thing? : the macro implications of massive firm entry

Desiere, Sam; Toniolo, Tiziano; Bijnens, Gert - 2025

Policies supporting small businesses are popular among policymakers but often criticised by economists for their potential to distort the economy. This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of a unique policy that subsidises the first employee. Empirically, we find that the policy led to a...

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Too much of a good thing? : the macro implications of massive firm entry

Desiere, Sam; Toniolo, Tiziano; Bijnens, Gert - 2025

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Too much of a good thing? : the macro implications of massive firm entry

Desiere, Sam; Toniolo, Tiziano; Bijnens, Gert - 2025

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The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy

Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; Liu, Huju - 2025

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The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy

Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; Liu, Huju - 2025

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The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy

Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023

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The Employment Effects of a Pandemic Wage Subsidy

Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023

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Bridging the wage gap : a discussion of wage subsidies to low-paid workers and their costs in Italy

Bonattia, Luigi; Lorenzettia, Lorenza Alexandra; … - 2025

This paper discusses the potential introduction of permanent public subsidies to supplement the wages of low-paid workers in Italy, taking inspiration from Edmund Phelps' ideas on supporting the working poor. We consider how a negative taxation scheme for low-wage earners might address...

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Hiring subsidies and temporary work agencies

Bermúdez-Barrezueta, Natalia; Desiere, Sam; Tarullo, Giulia - 2025

This paper evaluates a hiring subsidy for lower-educated youths in Flanders (Belgium) that reduced labour costs by approximately 13% for a period of two years, starting in 2016. Using a donut Regression Discontinuity Design, we find no evidence that the subsidy improved the job finding rate of...

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Hiring subsidies and temporary work agencies

Bermúdez-Barrezueta, Natalia; Desiere, Sam; Tarullo, Giulia - 2025

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Hiring subsidies and temporary work agencies

Bermúdez-Barrezueta, Natalia; Desiere, Sam; Tarullo, Giulia - 2025

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Disability, discrimination, and the effectiveness of wage subsidies : a job-search approach

Bellemare, Charles; Diallo, Ibrahima Sory Aissatou; … - 2025

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Statistical profiling as a targeting tool : can it enhance the efficiency of active labor market policies?

Eppel, Rainer; Huemer, Ulrike; Mahringer, Helmut; … - 2025

Digitization has spurred interest in the potential of statistical profiling to improve the targeting of active labor market policies. Despite growing adoption, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such profiling in program allocation is scarce. We evaluate a semi-automated statistical...

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Displacement effects of the Finnish hiring subsidy : evidence from a funding discontinuity

Korpela, Heikki - 2025

Finland offers a subsidy to employers for hiring individuals with low employment prospects. In 2015, changes to the subsidy's funding caused some regions to unexpectedly suspend new subsidy grants. I examine wages and employment in these regions using a differences-in-differences setting, with...

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Accrual versus cash basis of accounting in the Canadian COVID-19 subsidy programs

Mawani, Amin; Hajee, Salim - 2025

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Rethinking credit and capital subsidies to create jobs through MSMEs : the role of impact investment funds

Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Bourkane, Loubna; Ben Ghod … - 2025

The paper discusses the limits of credit and capital subsidies to finance MSMEs in the presence of jobs-related externalities. Using a stylized model of the decision to lend to enterprises with different levels of risk, we show that instruments like credit guarantees are likely to exclude...

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Persistence in employment of youth post-wage subsidy : matched firm-employee level evidence from South Africa

Fadiran, David Oluwatosin; Kamutando, Godfrey; Edwards, … - 2025

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Direct and indirect effects of subsidized dual apprenticeships

Crépon, Bruno; Premand, Patrick - 2025

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Direct and indirect effects of subsidized dual apprenticeships

Crépon, Bruno; Premand, Patrick - 2019

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Payroll subsidies for SMEs in informal labor markets

Bonilla Mejía, Leonardo; Flórez, Luz A.; Hermida, Didier - 2025

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A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa

Ebrahim, Amina; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2025

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Re-evaluating the returns to labour in microenterprises : a statistical replication and critical review of de Mel et al. (2019)

Kayongo, Patrick Sunday - 2025

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The effect of wage subsidies on job retention : evidence from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Köhler, Tim; Bhorat, Haroon; Hill, Robert - 2025

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The effect of wage subsidies on job retention : evidence from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Köhler, Timothy; Hill, Robert; Bhorat, Haroon - 2022

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Impact Evaluation of Wage Subsidies and Training for the Unemployed in Slovenia

2025

The report uses rich administrative data from different registers in Slovenia to evaluate the impact of the main training and wage subsidy (employment incentive) programmes. The analysis examines a range of outcomes related to labour market integration and assesses how the programmes affect...

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What works for active labor market policies? : a meta-analysis of RCT findings

Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Montané, Martín; Sartorio, Luca; … - 2025

The past 10 years have witnessed a flurry of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that shed new light on the impact and cost-effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) that aim to improve workers’ access to new jobs and better wages. This paper presents the first systematic review of...

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Inefficiencies in globalized economies with labor market frictions

Langot, François; Patureau, Lise; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2025

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Do EITC eligibility rules encourage college enrollment?

Ohannessian, Shogher; Ost, Ben - 2022

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Impact Evaluation of Training and Wage Subsidies for the Unemployed in Greece

2024

This report uses rich administrative data from different registers in Greece to evaluate the impact of two types of active labour market policies (ALMPs): wage subsidies and training for unemployed people. The report finds a positive impact of both types of ALMPs and makes recommendations for...

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Study on state aid for access to finance for social enterprises and for the recruitment of disadvantaged workers in the form of wage subsidies : final study

2024

This study examines the application and impact of the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) in supporting social enterprises (SEs) and the recruitment of disadvantaged workers across European Union (EU) Member States (MS). Findings reveal that national authorities often prefer alternative...

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Subsidized wages, small businesses, and exports : evidence from the paycheck protection program

Enami, Ali; Ghosh, Sucharita - 2024

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Income assistance programs and population health : the dual impact of minimum wages and the earned income tax credit

Lenhart, Otto; Chakraborty, Kalyan - 2024

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015075966

Do commuting subsidies drive workers to better firms?

Agrawal, David R.; Jahn, Elke J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2024

An unappreciated potential benefit of commuting subsidies is that they can expand the choice set of feasible job opportunities in a way that facilitates a better job match quality. Variations in wages and initial commuting distances, combined with major reforms of the commuting subsidy formula...

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The subsidy trap : explaining the unsatisfactory effectiveness of hiring subsidies for the senior unemployed

Dalle, Axana; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Baert, Stijn - 2024

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The subsidy trap : explaining the unsatisfactory effectiveness of hiring subsidies for the senior unemployed

Dalle, Axana; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Baert, Stijn - 2024

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The subsidy trap : explaining the unsatisfactory effectiveness of hiring subsidies for the senior unemployed

Dalle, Axana; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Baert, Stijn - 2024

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Active labour market policies : what works for the long-term unemployed?

Eppel, Rainer; Huemer, Ulrike; Mahringer, Helmut; … - 2024

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Active labour market policies : what works for the long-term unemployed?

Eppel, Rainer; Huemer, Ulrike; Mahringer, Helmut; … - 2024

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Monopsony and rent sharing : evidence from Italian hiring subsidies

Pacelli, Lia; Passerini, Filippo - 2024

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Monopsony and rent sharing : evidence from Italian hiring subsidies

Pacelli, Lia; Passerini, Filippo - 2024

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Subsidized small jobs and maternal labor market outcomes in the long run

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2025

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Subsidized small jobs and maternal labor market outcomes in the long run

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2024

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Subsidized small jobs and maternal labor market outcomes in the long run

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2024

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Phasing out payroll tax subsidies

Herget, Anna; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2024

Many countries subsidize low-income employments or small jobs. These subsidies and their phasing out can generate labor market frictions and distort incentives. The German Minijob program subsidizes low-income jobs. It generates a "Minijob trap" with substantial bunching along the earnings...

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Phasing out payroll tax subsidies

Herget, Anna; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2024

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The effects of hiring credits on firm dynamics : a synthetic difference-in-differences evaluation

Santoni, Edoardo; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Scarlato, Margherita - 2024

Despite hiring credits being a long-standing labor market policy, evidence of their impact at the firm level is limited. This paper contributes to the existing literature by providing an empirical analysis of an untargeted hiring credits policy introduced in Italy in 2015. We implement the...

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The employment tax incentive : a reform proposal

Donaldson, Andrew R. - 2024

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Minijobs as stepping stones to regular employment : overall trends and the role of Midijob reforms

Collischon, Matthias; Herget, Anna; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2024

Minijobs are subsidized small jobs below a fixed earnings threshold. Since a reform in 2003, they are viewed as stepping stones to the first labor market. However, the Minijob subsidy generates a 'Minijob trap' that causes vast bunching at the Minijob earnings threshold. Therefore, Midijobs were...

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Employment subsidies and job insertion of higher education graduates in the labor market

Khayati, Anis; Hani, Umme; Alam, Shabbir; Sha, Nadia; … - 2024

This paper uses data from the 24 governorates in Tunisia over the period 2012-2020 to study the relationship between job insertion of higher education graduates into the formal labor market and a number of independent variables, namely active labor supply, labor demand, an active labor market...

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Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youth are ineffective in a tight labor market

Dejemeppe, Muriel; Delpierre, Matthieu; Pourtois, Mathilde - 2024

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Evaluation de la mesure "Bonus à l'emploi" : impact sur les salaires et l'emploi

Dewatripont, Antoine; Lopez-Novella, Maritza - 2024

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Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths are ineffective in a tight labor market

Dejemeppe, Muriel; Delpierre, Matthieu; Pourtois, Mathilde - 2024

We evaluate the impact of hiring subsidies for unemployed jobseekers in Wallonia, the Frenchspeaking region in the south of Belgium. The special feature of these subsidies is that they are more readily available for low-educated youths, who are eligible from registration as a jobseeker or a few...

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(No) effects of subsidizing the first employee : evidence of a low take-up puzzle among firms

Nivala, Annika - 2024

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(No) effects of subsidizing the first employee : evidence of a low take-up puzzle among firms

Nivala, Annika - 2024

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