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(Elsevier Science, 2006)Generous social assistance has been held responsible for inactivity traps and social exclusion in several European countries, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers. Yet, the relative ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-07)Drawing from the formal setting of the optimal tax theory (Mirrlees 1971), the paper identifies the level of Rawlsianism of some European social planner starting from the observation of the real data and redistribution ...
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(The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2006-03)Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered amongst the main causes of the poor employment performance of EU countries. The success of New Labour has triggered a growing interests in instruments capable ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-08)To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three ...
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(Springer Netherlands, 2006)A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters for the decision process within the household and the subsequent distribution of re- sources and welfare. As a consequence, there are good reasons ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-08)Discrete choice models of labor supply easily account for nonlinearity and nonconvexity in budget sets caused by tax-benefit systems. As a result, they have become very popular for ex ante evaluations of policy reforms. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-02)Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefi…t policy changes, compared to ...
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(Elsevier, 2007)The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the within household distributional effects of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor ...
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(Irish Bankers' Federation, 1994)It is an interesting aspect of the current debate with regard to healthcare in developed countries that the discussion starts with the finance of healthcare. What makes it interesting is that, with the exception of the US, ...