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Current search: 'Welfare Benefits' and 'Journal Article'

  1. Impacts of long-standing illness and chronic illness on working hours and household income in a longitudinal UK study

    Cara L. Booker, Leanne Andrews, Gillian Green, et al.

    1. Disability
    2. Demography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Caregiving

  2. But what about that nice house you own? The impact of asset tests in minimum income schemes in Europe: an empirical exploration

    Sarah Marchal, Sarah Kuypers, Ive Marx, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  3. Work incentives at the extensive and intensive margin in Europe: the role of taxes, benefits and population characteristics

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Katrin Gasior, and Mattia Makovec

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  4. Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non-take-up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katrin Gasior, Tamara Premrov, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation

  5. Atypical work and unemployment protection in Europe

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Alberto Tumino

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Poverty
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Household Economics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  6. A method for decomposing the impact of reforms on the long-run income distribution, with an application to universal credit

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Taxation
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Surveys

  7. The fiscal and equity impact of social tax expenditures in the EU

    Salvador Barrios, Flavia Coda Moscarola, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Economic Policy

  8. The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes

    Mike Brewer and Laura Gardiner

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Living Standards
    6. Public Policy
    7. Welfare Benefits
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Health
    11. Covid 19

  9. The Covid-19 crisis response helps the poor: the distributional and budgetary consequences of the UK lockdown

    Patryk Bronka, Diego Collado, and Matteo Richiardi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Household Economics
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Finance
    11. Covid 19

  10. The use of hypothetical household data for policy learning: comparative tax‒benefit indicators using EUROMOD HHoT

    Katrin Gasior and Pasquale Recchia

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Social Policy

  11. A glass ceiling on poverty reduction? An empirical investigation into the structural constraints on minimum income protections

    Bea Cantillon, Zachary Parolin, and Diego Collado

    1. Unemployment
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Social Policy

  12. Second earners and in-work poverty in Europe

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Daria Popova

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  13. Welfare resilience in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy

    Francesco Figari and Carlo V. Fiorio

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Health
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation
    9. Covid 19

  14. Shifting taxes away from labour enhances equity and fiscal efficiency

    Flavia Coda Moscarola, Ugo Colombino, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation

  15. Europe through the crisis: discretionary policy changes and automatic stabilisers

    Alari Paulus and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation

  16. In-work credits in the UK and the US

    Mike Brewer and Hilary Hoynes

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Poverty
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits

  17. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce poverty

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  18. Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Marcelo Varela

    1. Insurance
    2. Households
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Household Economics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  19. Indexing out of poverty? Fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective

    Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  20. The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe: the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies

    Daria Popova and Jekaterina Navicke

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation
    8. Social Stratification

  21. Improving poverty reduction in Europe: what works best where?

    Chrysa Leventi, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation

  22. Distributional impact of taxes and social transfers in Russia over the downturn

    Daria Popova, Mikhail Matytsin, and Emily Sinnot

    1. Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation
    5. Economic Policy

  23. The case for NIT+FT in Europe. An empirical optimal taxation exercise

    Nizamul Islam and Ugo Colombino

    1. Labour Market
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  24. Who benefits from the ‘hidden welfare state’? The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure in six countries

    Silvia Avram

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  25. Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents

    Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

    1. Disability
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Welfare Benefits

  26. How taxes and welfare benefits affect work incentives: a life-cycle perspective

    Mike Brewer and Jonathan Shaw

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Taxation
    5. Life Course Analysis

  27. Learning from your neighbor: tax-benefit systems swaps in Latin America

    Olivier Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, and David Rodriguez

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  28. Reducing poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform and the minimum wage: the UK as a case-study

    Anthony B. Atkinson, Chrysa Leventi, Brian Nolan, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  29. Changes in spending and labor supply in response to a Social Security benefit cut: evidence from stated choice

    Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics

  30. Simulation of an application of the Hartz-IV reform in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katarina Hollan, and Katrin Gasior

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation

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