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Unemployment Benefits Versus Conditional Negative Income Taxes

The paper analyzes the wage-employment effects of replacing unemployment benefits by negative income taxes. It first surveys the major equity and efficiency effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes, and summarizes the salient features of many European unemployment benefit system...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snower, Dennis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1995
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Unemployment Insurance
Optimal Taxation
Labour; Income Economics
Employment; Economic Theory
Public Finance & Taxation
Taxes
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, And Job Search
Fiscal Policy
Aggregate Labor Productivity
Environmental Taxes And Subsidies
Labor
Income Tax Systems
Personal Finance -taxation
Personal Income And Other Nonbusiness Taxes And Subsidies
Taxation
Taxation And Subsidies: Externalities
Income Tax
Employment
Fiscal Policies And Behavior Of Economic Agents: Household
Fiscal Policies And Behavior Of Economic Agents: Firm
Unemployment
Aggregate Human Capital
Expenditure
Severance Pay
Wage Level And Structure
Taxation, Subsidies, And Revenue: General
Efficiency
Labor Demand
Plant Closings
Unemployment Benefits
Wages
Wage Differentials
Intergenerational Income Distribution
Public Finance
Redistributive Effects
Personal Income Tax
United Kingdom
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The paper analyzes the wage-employment effects of replacing unemployment benefits by negative income taxes. It first surveys the major equity and efficiency effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes, and summarizes the salient features of many European unemployment benefit systems in this light. Second, it presents a simple theoretical model that focuses on the relative wage-employment effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes. Finally, it provides some empirical groundwork for assessing this relative effect
Physical Description:22 pages
ISBN:9781451848649

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