Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
July 15, 2019
Summary:
Based on the Serbian Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC) and tax benefits and structural microsimulation models, we evaluate the labour supply and distributive effects of several reform strategies concerning two major social transfers in Serbia: child allowance and social monetary assistance. Our results show that, in a context of a low labour participation rate, and high unemployment and informality rates, a benefit strategy is by far the more cost‐effective option for reducing child poverty than an employment strategy that aims to raise the work incentives for parents. Both proposed reforms are found to be progressive.
Published in
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 27 , p.615 -645
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12197
ISSN
25776983
Subjects
#525836