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Financial Support for Young Adults Through Tax and Social Transfers – Defamilialisation Scenarios

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  • Adélaïde Favrat
  • Vincent Lignon
  • Muriel Pucci

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[eng] This paper assesses the support provided by the tax and social security system to young adults aged 18-24, distinguishing between the direct benefits they receive and the transfers channelled through their parents, whether in the form of increases in social security benefits or tax savings. Using the Myriade microsimulation model, we estimate that nearly 50% of the support provided to young adults aged 18-24 is channelled through their parents. Illustrating the familialist model that underlies support to young adults in France, indirect transfers tend to be higher in the upper deciles than in the middle deciles, raising questions of fairness. To assess their redistributive properties, the paper examines the effect of redeploying indirect support in the form of an individualised allowance paid directly to young adults. In the two scenarios envisaged, redeployment is found to reduce the average poverty risk and the differences in living standards among young adults, but to penalise some young adults from low-income families still in education.

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  • Adélaïde Favrat & Vincent Lignon & Muriel Pucci, 2020. "Financial Support for Young Adults Through Tax and Social Transfers – Defamilialisation Scenarios," Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE), issue 514-515-5, pages 49-70.
    • Handle: RePEc:nse:ecosta:ecostat_2020_514t_4
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2020.514t.2012
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    1. Jérôme Gautié & Coralie Perez, 2010. "Les comptes individuels de formation : fondements et enseignements," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00517408, HAL.
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    3. Adélaïde Favrat & Céline Marc & Muriel Pucci, 2015. "Les dispositifs sociaux et fiscaux en faveur des familles : quelle compensation du coût des enfants ?," Post-Print halshs-03201804, HAL.
    4. Coralie Perez, 2011. "Les dotations en capital pour les jeunes : un jalon vers l'égalisation des chances et l'autonomie des jeunes ?," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00601839, HAL.
    5. Adélaïde Favrat & Céline Marc & Muriel Pucci, 2015. "Les dispositifs sociaux et fiscaux en faveur des familles : quelle compensation du coût des enfants ?," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-03201804, HAL.
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    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques

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