[…] Norwegian single parent benefit reform, in which work and educational requirements were introduced, time limits imposed, and the maximum benefit level increased. We propose to identify the impact of the reform by taking the difference between a pre-reform difference-in-difference estimator and a post-reform difference-in-difference estimator of the effects of becoming single mother on earnings, […]

[…] they receive less political support in countries with well-established middle class due to their distributional effects. This paper tries to answer the question what would be the impact on income distribution, e.g. in terms of inequality and poverty, of implementing a flat income tax in Western European countries. Using EUROMOD, which is a tax-benefit […]

Design effects are useful measures of the impact of a sample design on the precision of survey-based estimates. However, they are often misunderstood. Research in recent years has provided some clarity regarding definitions and some guidance regarding practical applications, including both issues relating to the use of predicted design effects to inform sample design […]

[…] they receive less political support in countries with well-established middle class due to their distributional effects. This paper tries to answer the question what would be the impact on income distribution, e.g. in terms of inequality and poverty, of implementing a flat income tax in Western European countries. Using EUROMOD, which is a tax-benefit […]

[…] taxes and social insurance contributions on the basis of tax-benefit rules and a representative sample of micro-data at the individual level. EUROMOD provides estimates of the distributional impact of changes to personal tax and transfer policy, with (a) the specification of policy changes, (b) the application of revenue constraints and (c) the evaluation of […]

In order to make informed decisions about suitable data collection designs, survey practitioners need to evaluate and quantify the potential impact of mode on data quality. Generating this type of information is however a difficult task. We review the methods typically used to assess the effects of mode on measurement and data comparability and […]

[…] British Household Panel Survey to present the first estimates of the housework-wage relationship in Britain. Controlling for permanent unobserved heterogeneity, we find that housework has a negative impact on the wages of men and women, both married and single, who work full-time. Among women working part-time, only single women suffer a housework penalty. The […]

[…] British Household Panel Survey to present the first estimates of the housework-wage relationship in Britain. Controlling for permanent unobserved heterogeneity, we find that housework has a negative impact on the wages of men and women, both married and single, who work full-time. Among women working part-time, only single women suffer a housework penalty. The […]

[…] with their neighbours. The results suggest that all three forms of mobility have increased over time and are negatively associated with visiting neighbours. The most substantial negative impact on visiting neighbours is observed for increases in residential mobility. With further increases in mobility, close neighbours may become less relevant. Nevertheless, presently the incidence of […]