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(University College Dublin; School of EconomicsUCD Geary Institute, 2007-08)The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-03)There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, ...
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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, 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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(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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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-12)The main objectives of social assistance bene…fits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-01)We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identi…cation of the children's share ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-01)The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-05)This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to de…fine informality in a relatively comparable fashion ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-01)We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in ...