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 ...
This paper analyses the pure time-series properties of doctors’ fees in Ireland to assess whether a structural change in the series is observed at the time of the change in reimbursement in 1989. Such a break would be ...
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 ...
In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and
efficiency, as they alleviate poverty among low-wage households while increasing
nancial incentives to work. The present study explores the ...
Irish experience during a recent period of severe fiscal adjustment attracted international attention and was claimed to demonstrate an expansionary fiscal contraction. Using a small structural model which fits the stylized ...
Bargain, Olivier(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. ...