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This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics
relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic
institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions.
Topics covered include job training, worker and firm mobility,
unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment
insurance and schooling. Among the questions answered are: To what
extent do greater work hours of women mitigate the widening of the
family earnings distribution? To what extent does the decline in
unionization widen the distribution of earnings? To what extent do
computers expand the earnings distribution? To what extent does the
Russian wage distribution change if one accounted for wage arrears?
To what extent does business relocation bring about job creation
and job destruction? To what extent does maternal education
increase childrens education? To what extent do job skills matter
for low-income workers? And finally, why do minimum wage increases
often fail to lead to increases in unemployment?
*Thirteen new and original chapters containing research on aspects
of worker well-being.
*Includes job training, worker and firm mobility, unions,
collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and
schooling.
*Each chapter written by experts in the field.
This volume contains eight contributions aimed to advance policy
analysis using the European tax-benefit micro-simulation model
EUROMOD. Microsimulation allows computing the whole set of taxes
and benefits of a country and the resulting budget constraint for
each household of a representative dataset. Thus it can be used to
evaluate how existing fiscal policies alter inequality, poverty and
the overall income distribution. In addition, the simulation of
financial incentives considerably improves the econometric
estimations of labor supply behaviors, fertility choices, and
marital decisions, thereby allowing better prediction to policy
changes. EUROMOD goes once step further in the process of helping
policy design: based on homogenized datasets and harmonized
definitions of tax-benefit instruments, it allows to perform
comprehensive international comparisons of EU-15 countries and to
evaluate the optimality of tax-benefit policies. For instance, one
can assess the effect of a common reform in particular
institutional settings or the transmission of a tax-benefit system
from one country to another.
After an introductory chapter that present the history and the
scope of the EUROMOD project, seven chapters on different policy
issues follow. Among the discussed themes: the relevance of the
British tax credit to encourage female employment in continental
Europe, the impact of hypothetical child benefits on child poverty
in Southern Europe, the variety of effects of the same standard
pension reform once implemented in different European countries,
the role of the fiscal drag as an automatic stabilizer and its
effect on labor costs, the revelation of social preferences from
actual implicittax rates.
*Aims to advance policy analysis using the European Tax-benefit
Model
*Evaluates how existing fiscal policies alter inequality, poverty
and the overall income distribution
*Investigates how financial incentives considerably improve the
econometric estimations of labor supply behaviors, fertility and
matrial choices
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