Microsimulation of Child Benefits: A Review of Studies

Urban, Ivica; Pezer, Martina

doi:10.34196/ijm.00191

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“…Microsimulation tools have been irreplaceable in the analysis of the effects of fiscal reforms and policies on poverty and inequality, labour incentives, budget revenues and expenditures and so on (Sutherland and Figari, 2013). Urban and Pezer (2018) provide an overview of child benefit studies that apply microsimulation models. In addition to benefit incidence analysis, actual and free-style reforms have been performed, and policy swaps between countries have been conducted.…”

Section: Public Support For Children: Goals and Policies In Practicementioning

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Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries

Pezer

2022

Journal of European Social Policy

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Public policies supporting families with children differ among countries but with the same goal of improving the well-being of children. Using a microsimulation model, this article assesses the cash support which families receive for their children in Croatia, Greece, Germany, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The impact of policies across the income distribution on different family sizes, child-rearing cost compensation and child poverty is estimated. A method for the calculation of child-contingent payments for each child by order of birth in the family is proposed as a complementary indicator of policy design. The results confirm that a combination of universal and targeted support (either from family or social assistance benefits) is the most effective in poverty reduction and cost compensation. While high support for larger families greatly reduces poverty, generous universal or even lower support for large families has proved to be at least equally effective.

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Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries

Pezer

2022

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…pension) system reform. The pensions are usually not simulated because of specific information required in simulation [20], but EUROMOD contains data about the economic status of pensioners, along with all other necessary data for microsimulation that this paper uses. The simulation of the reform is a useful tool for presenting future consequences of the introduction of the reform on public finances and the population's income level.…”

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No country for old men? Microsimulation effects of activating pensioners on the labour market

Mustać

Mačkić

Dumančić

2022

Croat. oper. res. rev. (Online)

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Being a pensioner in Croatia carries certain risks of poverty and inequality compared to the rest of the population. Low level of average pension compared to the minimal wage is just one case in point. On the other hand, the labour market shortage is not negligible and there is also a poor track record when it comes to pension system reforms in the last two decades. This paper investigates a possible path of the future pension system reform aimed at increasing household income levels -- focused on the labour market participation of people aged 65+ who are willing and able to solve labour shortages present in the market. The general aim of the paper is to analyze the effects that the establishment of the Pensioners Service Center might have on market income, mean household income by decile groups, poverty and inequality indices. It fills the research gap by conducting the first microsimulation of the pension system reform in Croatia focusing on market income. The hypothetical reform is simulated using the tax--benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD based on EU--SILC 2019 data for Croatia. Results confirm market income as the main cause of income inequality as well as that the second decile is the target group of the proposed intervention. Pensioners have a clear monetary incentive to increase their labour supply, which in return decreases all poverty and inequality indices.

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How could Croatia reform tax-benefit policies for families with children: tackling distributional effects

Pezer

2022

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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Microsimulation of Child Benefits: A Review of Studies

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries

Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries

No country for old men? Microsimulation effects of activating pensioners on the labour market

How could Croatia reform tax-benefit policies for families with children: tackling distributional effects

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