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Chapter 9 In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland

In: Research in Labor Economics

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  • Olivier Bargain
  • Karina Doorley

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In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and efficiency as they alleviate poverty among low-wage households, while increasing financial incentives to work. In the context of the recent economic downturn, they have been advocated to offset the disincentive effect of wage cuts and to cushion the negative redistributive impact of earnings losses and cuts in the minimum wage. We study this double effect for Ireland, a country deeply affected by the economic crisis, and for which existing in-work support policies are of limited scope. The employment and poverty effects of alternative policies are analysed thanks to counterfactual simulations built using a micro-simulation model, the Living in Ireland Survey 2001 and labour supply estimations. We focus on an extension of the existing scheme, the Family Income Supplement and its replacement by the refundable tax credit in force in the United Kingdom.

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  • Olivier Bargain & Karina Doorley, 2011. "Chapter 9 In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland," Research in Labor Economics, in: Research in Labor Economics, pages 307-339, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rleczz:s0147-9121(2011)0000033012
    DOI: 10.1108/S0147-9121(2011)0000033012
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    1. Doorley, Karina & Keane, Claire & Tuda, Dora, 2021. "COVID-19 and the Irish welfare system," Papers BP2022/2, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
    2. Doorley, Karina & Eichhorst, Werner & Kendzia, Michael Jan, 2013. "The Social and Employment Situation in Ireland (Update February 2013)," IZA Research Reports 52, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Doorley, Karina, 2018. "Taxation, Work and Gender Equality in Ireland," IZA Discussion Papers 11495, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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