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Optimal income support for lone parents in the Netherlands: are we there yet?

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  • Henk-Wim Boer

    (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)

  • Egbert Jongen

    (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
    Leiden University
    IZA)

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The Netherlands witnessed major reforms in income support for lone parents over the past decade, to simplify the support system and to improve the financial incentives to work. We consider whether the new system can be considered closer to ‘optimal’, using the inverse-optimal tax(ation) method. In our base model we find social welfare weights that were not monotonically declining in income before the reforms. The reforms fixed this anomaly for the group of lone parents as a whole, but the anomaly remains for lone parents with a child 0–3 years old. For a wide range of redistributive preferences we find that subsidies for working lone parents could be increased further.

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  • Henk-Wim Boer & Egbert Jongen, 2023. "Optimal income support for lone parents in the Netherlands: are we there yet?," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 21(3), pages 573-589, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joecin:v:21:y:2023:i:3:d:10.1007_s10888-023-09564-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10888-023-09564-y
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    Keywords

    Optimal taxation; Revealed social preferences; Lone parents;
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    JEL classification:

    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household

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