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.
Reduction of child poverty in Serbia: Benefit or employment strategy? / Clavet N.-J.; Tiberti L.; Vladisavljevic M.; Rakic J.Z.; Anic A.; Krstic G.; Randelovic S.. - In: ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION. - ISSN 0967-0750. - ELETTRONICO. - 27:(2019), pp. 615-645. [10.1111/ecot.12197]
Reduction of child poverty in Serbia: Benefit or employment strategy?
Tiberti L.
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2019
Abstract
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.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.