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No. 28 | 29 Sept 2005 |
Welfare Reform in European Countries
This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal... |
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No. 27 | 02 Sept 2005 |
Trends and Determinants of Fertility Rates
This report tries to explain observed changes in fertility rates across OECD countries, with an emphasis on socio-economic considerations. It aims to extend the understanding of fertility-related behaviours in different ways: first, by explaining... |
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No. 26 | 01 Sept 2005 |
The "Enabling State?" from Public to Private Responsibility for Social Protection
Policies designed to advance the march toward private financing and delivery of social services follow five main pathways. While some of these approaches to privatization are more direct and transparent than others, all may be pursued simultaneously.... |
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No. 25 | 22 Jun 2005 |
Counting Immigrants and Expatriates in OECD Countries
Results presented in this paper based on the new database on immigrants and expatriates in OECD countries, show that (i) the percentage of the foreign-born in European OECD countries is generally higher than the percentage of foreigners; (ii)... |
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No. 24 | 29 Jul 2005 |
Taxation, Ethnic Ties and the Location Choice of Highly Skilled Immigrants
With the emerging international competition to attract highly skilled migrants, the determinants of their choice of residential location are increasing in importance. Besides expected wages and job opportunities, the costs of migration and the... |
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No. 23 | 21 Mar 2005 |
Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?
Some people make great claims about the advantages to be gained from greater reliance on the private sector for the provision of social protection. Many of the claims for great macroeconomic advantages do not stand up to scrutiny. However, there is... |
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No. 22 | 10 Mar 2005 |
Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries in the Second Half of the 1990s
This report provides evidence on income distribution and poverty in 27 OECD countries over the second half of the 1990s, using data that correct for many of the features that limit cross-country and intertemporal comparisons in this field. Patterns... |
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No. 21 | 09 Dec 2004 |
Design Choices in Market Competition for Employment Services for the Long-Term Unemployed
Most Western countries have a long tradition of employment service provision by public bodies and non-profit organisations, but not by for-profit organisations. The creation of a quasi-market arrangement is not a simple choice for government. This... |
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No. 20 | 17 Dec 2004 |
Benefit Coverage Rates and Household Typologies
The OECD regularly produces estimates of tax burdens and benefit entitlements for a range of “typical household” situations. The results of these calculations (published in the Benefits and Wages and Taxing Wages series) are frequently used to... |
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No. 19 | 02 Dec 2004 |
Average and Marginal Effective Tax Rates Facing Workers in the EU
Macro-based effective tax rate (ETR) measures do not provide information on the level or distribution of marginal effective tax rates thought to influence household behaviour. They also do not capture differences in average ETRs facing different... |
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No. 18 | 15 Mar 2004 |
Indicators of Unemployment and Low-Wage Traps
This paper presents results from an on-going joint European Commission / OECD project, aimed at monitoring the direct influence of tax and benefit instruments on household incomes. The project uses and extends OECD tax-benefit models to compute a... |
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No. 17 | 08 Mar 2004 |
Take-Up of Welfare Benefits in OECD Countries
This report provides an overview of the limited empirical and theoretical research on take-up of welfare benefits, i.e. the extent to which people eligible for various types of benefits actually receive them. Focus is mainly on entitlement... |
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No. 16 | 22 Jan 2004 |
The Swedish Activity Guarantee
Until recently, an unemployed person in Sweden who participated in an active labour market programme earned entitlement to a further 60 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. A "carousel" effect - cycling between periods of open unemployment... |
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No. 14 | 19 Sept 2003 |
National Versus Regional Financing and Management of Unemployment and Related Benefits
Decentralization looms large in any analysis of Canadian economic and social policy. This trend has been especially pronounced in the area of unemployment insurance (UI) and social assistance (SA) programmes. Provinces now manage SA programmes and... |
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No. 13 | 12 Sept 2003 |
The Competitive Market for Employment Services in the Netherlands
OECD countries are increasingly interested in structuring government organisation and the financing of job brokerage and employment reintegration services to use market forces. In the Netherlands, the introduction of market mechanisms has been part... |
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No. 12 | 19 Aug 2003 |
Towards Sustainable Development
Three main elements characterise the notion of sustainable development: first, a broad view of human well-being, in which environmental and social elements are important as well as economic ones; second, the view that many of the effects of today's... |
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No. 11 | 06 Aug 2003 |
Individual Choice in Social Protection
In most OECD countries, the structure of the pension system does not give much potential for individual choice. The Swiss pension system is a particularly interesting case in this respect. Switzerland relies heavily on privately-managed, fully-funded... |
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No. 10 | 09 Jul 2003 |
Improving Workers' Skills
There is a wide consensus that workforce skills are an important determinant for economic growth. Alongside initial education, continuous education and training (hereafter referred to as CET) plays a key role in meeting these skill needs. This report... |
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No. 9 | 06 Jun 2003 |
The Value of Pension Entitlements
Pension systems are complex and comparing them across countries is therefore difficult. This paper adopts standard methodology to calculate prospective pension entitlements in nine countries. The modeling ncludes universal and resource-tested... |
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No. 8 | 06 Jun 2003 |
Financial Resources and Retirement in Nine OECD Countries
Most countries give income-tax concessions to older people relative to people of working age. Some treat pension income more favourably than earnings, and most do not levy social security contributions on older people. These policies mean that the... |
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Welfare Reform in European Countries
Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner et Emmanuel Saez
29 Sept 2005
This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal...
Trends and Determinants of Fertility Rates
Anna Christina D'Addio et Marco Mira d'Ercole
02 Sept 2005
This report tries to explain observed changes in fertility rates across OECD countries, with an emphasis on socio-economic considerations. It aims to extend the understanding of fertility-related behaviours in different ways: first, by explaining...
The "Enabling State?" from Public to Private Responsibility for Social Protection
Neil Gilbert
01 Sept 2005
Policies designed to advance the march toward private financing and delivery of social services follow five main pathways. While some of these approaches to privatization are more direct and transparent than others, all may be pursued simultaneously....
Counting Immigrants and Expatriates in OECD Countries
Jean-Christophe Dumont et Georges Lemaître
22 Jun 2005
Results presented in this paper based on the new database on immigrants and expatriates in OECD countries, show that (i) the percentage of the foreign-born in European OECD countries is generally higher than the percentage of foreigners; (ii)...
Taxation, Ethnic Ties and the Location Choice of Highly Skilled Immigrants
Thomas Liebig et Alfonso Sousa-Poza
29 Jul 2005
With the emerging international competition to attract highly skilled migrants, the determinants of their choice of residential location are increasing in importance. Besides expected wages and job opportunities, the costs of migration and the...
Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?
Mark Pearson et John P. Martin
21 Mar 2005
Some people make great claims about the advantages to be gained from greater reliance on the private sector for the provision of social protection. Many of the claims for great macroeconomic advantages do not stand up to scrutiny. However, there is...
Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries in the Second Half of the 1990s
Michael Förster et Marco Mira d'Ercole
10 Mar 2005
This report provides evidence on income distribution and poverty in 27 OECD countries over the second half of the 1990s, using data that correct for many of the features that limit cross-country and intertemporal comparisons in this field. Patterns...
Design Choices in Market Competition for Employment Services for the Long-Term Unemployed
Ludo Struyven
09 Dec 2004
Most Western countries have a long tradition of employment service provision by public bodies and non-profit organisations, but not by for-profit organisations. The creation of a quasi-market arrangement is not a simple choice for government. This...
Benefit Coverage Rates and Household Typologies
Herwig Immervoll, Pascal Marianna et Marco Mira d'Ercole
17 Dec 2004
The OECD regularly produces estimates of tax burdens and benefit entitlements for a range of “typical household” situations. The results of these calculations (published in the Benefits and Wages and Taxing Wages series) are frequently used to...
Average and Marginal Effective Tax Rates Facing Workers in the EU
Herwig Immervoll
02 Dec 2004
Macro-based effective tax rate (ETR) measures do not provide information on the level or distribution of marginal effective tax rates thought to influence household behaviour. They also do not capture differences in average ETRs facing different...
Indicators of Unemployment and Low-Wage Traps
Giuseppe Carone, Herwig Immervoll, Dominique Paturot et Aino Salomäki
15 Mar 2004
This paper presents results from an on-going joint European Commission / OECD project, aimed at monitoring the direct influence of tax and benefit instruments on household incomes. The project uses and extends OECD tax-benefit models to compute a...
Take-Up of Welfare Benefits in OECD Countries
Virginia Hernanz, Franck Malherbet et Michele Pellizzari
08 Mar 2004
This report provides an overview of the limited empirical and theoretical research on take-up of welfare benefits, i.e. the extent to which people eligible for various types of benefits actually receive them. Focus is mainly on entitlement...
The Swedish Activity Guarantee
Anders Forslund, Daniela Froberg et Linus Lindqvist
22 Jan 2004
Until recently, an unemployed person in Sweden who participated in an active labour market programme earned entitlement to a further 60 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. A "carousel" effect - cycling between periods of open unemployment...
National Versus Regional Financing and Management of Unemployment and Related Benefits
David Gray
19 Sept 2003
Decentralization looms large in any analysis of Canadian economic and social policy. This trend has been especially pronounced in the area of unemployment insurance (UI) and social assistance (SA) programmes. Provinces now manage SA programmes and...
The Competitive Market for Employment Services in the Netherlands
Ludo Struyven et Geert Steurs
12 Sept 2003
OECD countries are increasingly interested in structuring government organisation and the financing of job brokerage and employment reintegration services to use market forces. In the Netherlands, the introduction of market mechanisms has been part...
Towards Sustainable Development
Marco Mira d'Ercole et Andrea Salvini
19 Aug 2003
Three main elements characterise the notion of sustainable development: first, a broad view of human well-being, in which environmental and social elements are important as well as economic ones; second, the view that many of the effects of today's...
Individual Choice in Social Protection
Monika Queisser et Edward Whitehouse
06 Aug 2003
In most OECD countries, the structure of the pension system does not give much potential for individual choice. The Swiss pension system is a particularly interesting case in this respect. Switzerland relies heavily on privately-managed, fully-funded...
Improving Workers' Skills
Wooseok Ok et Peter Tergeist
09 Jul 2003
There is a wide consensus that workforce skills are an important determinant for economic growth. Alongside initial education, continuous education and training (hereafter referred to as CET) plays a key role in meeting these skill needs. This report...
The Value of Pension Entitlements
Edward Whitehouse
06 Jun 2003
Pension systems are complex and comparing them across countries is therefore difficult. This paper adopts standard methodology to calculate prospective pension entitlements in nine countries. The modeling ncludes universal and resource-tested...
Financial Resources and Retirement in Nine OECD Countries
Gordon Keenay et Edward Whitehouse
06 Jun 2003
Most countries give income-tax concessions to older people relative to people of working age. Some treat pension income more favourably than earnings, and most do not levy social security contributions on older people. These policies mean that the...