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The Economic Effects of Employment-Conditional Income Support Schemes for the Low-Paid An Illustration from a CGE Model Applied to Four OECD Countries

Title
The Economic Effects of Employment-Conditional Income Support Schemes for the Low-Paid [electronic resource]: An Illustration from a CGE Model Applied to Four OECD Countries / Andrea Bassanini, Jørn Rasmussen and Stefano Scarpetta
Author
Bassanini, Andrea.
Publication
Paris : OECD Publishing, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Rasmussen, Jørn.
  • Scarpetta, Stefano.
Description
43 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
Summary
Problems of unemployment and low pay amongst the low-skilled and those with little work experience are severe in many OECD countries. Employment-conditional schemes are policy instruments designed to increase the employment prospects of the low-skilled as well as to support their living standard. In this paper a simple CGE model is developed to simulate the impact of the introduction of an employmentconditional scheme in four OECD countries. The simulated policy package is graduated on gross earnings with both "phase-in" and "phase-out" regions. The advantage of the CGE approach is to allow assessing the direct and indirect effects of the financing of the policy scheme on both labour demand and supply. The simulations suggest that employment effects on targeted households are significant while the impact on aggregate employment is modest. Furthermore, the cost-effectiveness of the policy package is found to depend crucially on the earnings distribution, the levels of taxes on ...
Series Statement
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.224
Uniform Title
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.224.
Subject
Economics
LCCN
10.1787/083815484206
OCLC
oecd-lib-004232
Author
Bassanini, Andrea.
Title
The Economic Effects of Employment-Conditional Income Support Schemes for the Low-Paid [electronic resource]: An Illustration from a CGE Model Applied to Four OECD Countries / Andrea Bassanini, Jørn Rasmussen and Stefano Scarpetta
Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 1999.
Series
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.224
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.224.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/083815484206
Indexed Term
Economics
Added Author
Rasmussen, Jørn.
Scarpetta, Stefano.
Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/083815484206 doi
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