IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/ectrin/v27y2019i3p615-645.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Reduction of child poverty in Serbia: Benefit or employment strategy?

Author

Listed:
  • Nicholas‐James Clavet
  • Luca Tiberti
  • Marko Vladisavljević
  • Jelena Žarković Rakić
  • Aleksandra Anić
  • Gorana Krstić
  • Saša Ranđelović

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Nicholas‐James Clavet & Luca Tiberti & Marko Vladisavljević & Jelena Žarković Rakić & Aleksandra Anić & Gorana Krstić & Saša Ranđelović, 2019. "Reduction of child poverty in Serbia: Benefit or employment strategy?," Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(3), pages 615-645, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:ectrin:v:27:y:2019:i:3:p:615-645
    DOI: 10.1111/ecot.12197
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12197
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/ecot.12197?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ranđelović Saša & Žarković Rakić Jelena & Vladisavljević Marko & Vujić Sunčica, 2019. "Labour Supply and Inequality Effects of In-Work Benefits: Evidence from Serbia," Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy, Sciendo, vol. 65(3), pages 1-22, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:ectrin:v:27:y:2019:i:3:p:615-645. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1111/(ISSN)2577-6983 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.