In-Work Tax Credits in Belgium: An Analysis of the Jobkorting Using a Discrete Labour Supply Model

Author(s):  
Pieter Vanleenhove



2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Mideros ◽  
Cathal O’Donoghue

AbstractWe examine the effect of unconditional cash transfers by a unitary discrete labour supply model. We argue that there is no negative income effect of social transfers in the case of poor adults because leisure could not be assumed to be a normal good under such conditions. Using data from the national employment survey of Ecuador (ENEMDUR) we estimate the effect of the



2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Broadway ◽  
Guyonne R.J. Kalb ◽  
Jinhu Li ◽  
Anthony Scott


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-225
Author(s):  
Eleftherios Giovanis ◽  
Oznur Ozdamar


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
RITA GRIFFITHS

AbstractTwo-parent families with dependent children are known to be at lower risk of poverty and significantly less reliant on state financial help than lone-parent households. It might therefore be expected that the factors influencing partnership transitions among low-income women would represent a key area of policy interest. However, driven by concerns about weak work incentives, policy focus and research has to date concentrated on understanding lone parents’ labour supply and encouraging the transition from benefits into employment. Surprisingly little is therefore known about demographic decision making among women reliant on UK means-tested welfare. As part of a wider qualitative study exploring family formation, partnership dissolution and repartnering decisions among low-income mothers, this paper examines whether and to what extent entitlement to welfare benefits or tax credits influenced the decision to live with or apart from a partner or child's father. The research found that the aspects of welfare that remove or reduce a mother's access to an independent income and require one partner in a couple to be financially dependent on the other had been strongly influential in partnering decisions and living arrangements. Policy implications are discussed.





1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann H. Baumann ◽  
Manfred M. Fischer ◽  
Uwe Schubert


2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saša Ranđelović ◽  
Jelena Žarković Rakić ◽  
Marko Vladisavljević ◽  
Sunčica Vujić

AbstractLow labour market participation, together with the high effective tax wedge at low wage levels, create a fertile ground for the introduction of the in-work benefits (IWB) in Serbia. Our paper provides an ex-ante evaluation of the two IWB schemes, directed at stimulating the labour supply and more equal income distribution. The methodological approach combines the tax-and-benefit microsimulation model with the discrete labour supply model. Our results show that both individual and family-based IWB schemes would considerably boost labour market participation, although family-based benefits would have disincentivizing effects for the secondary earners in couples. Most of the behavioural changes take place among the poorest individuals, with significant redistributive effects.



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