The debate between structural and reduced-form approaches has generated substantial
controversy in applied economics. This article reviews a recent literature in public …

The assumption behind discrete hours labour supply modelling is that utility‐maximising
individuals choose from a relatively small number of hours levels, rather than being able to …

By the early 21st century, most high-income countries have put into effect a host of generous
and virtually gender-neutral parental leave policies and family benefits, with the multiple …

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17
European countries and the United States using a harmonized empirical approach. We find …

This paper investigates the design of tax structures to promote economic growth. It suggests
a “tax and growth” ranking of taxes, confirming results from earlier literature but providing a …

During the last 20 years, microsimulation models have been increasingly applied in
qualitative and quantitative analysis of public policies. This paper discusses microsimulation …

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) grew from $3.9 billion in 1975 (in 1999 dollars), the
first year it was part of the tax code, to $31.5 billion in 2000. No other federal antipoverty …

This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-
age population, covering OECD countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is …

This article compares the effects of increasing traditional welfare to introducing in‐work
benefits in the 15 (pre‐enlargement) countries of the European Union. We use a labour …

This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply
elasticities. For the Netherlands, we find that an elasticity of 0.5 for women and 0.1 for men is …