What’s best for women: gender based taxation, wage subsidies or basic income?
"Gender based taxation (GBT) has been recently proposed as a promising policy in order to improve women’s status in the labour market and within the family. We use a microeconometric model of household labour supply in order to evaluate, with Italian data, the behavioural and welfare effects of...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19127250124919454329-What’s-best-for-women-gender-b.htm |
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| author | EUROMOD Colombino, Ugo Narazani, Edlira |
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| description | "Gender based taxation (GBT) has been recently proposed as a promising policy in order to improve women’s status in the labour market and within the family. We use a microeconometric model of household labour supply in order to evaluate, with Italian data, the behavioural and welfare effects of GBT as compared to other policies based on different optimal taxation principles. The comparison is interesting because GBT, although technically correct, might face implementation difficulties not shared by other policies that in turn might produce comparable benefits. The simulation procedure accounts for the constraints implied by fiscal neutrality and market equilibrium. Our results support to some extent the expectations of GBT’s proponents.
However it is not an unquestionable success. GBT induces a modest increase of women’s employment, but similar effects can be attained by universal subsidies on low wages. When the policies are evaluated in terms of welfare, GBT ranks first among single women but for the whole population the best policies are subsidies on low wages, unconditional transfers or a combination of the two." |
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| geographic | Italy |
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| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| is_hierarchy_title | What’s best for women: gender based taxation, wage subsidies or basic income? |
| language | English |
| physical | 20 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2013 |
| publisher | Colchester ISER |
| spellingShingle | EUROMOD Colombino, Ugo Narazani, Edlira gender guaranteed income taxation wage incentive What’s best for women: gender based taxation, wage subsidies or basic income? |
| title | What’s best for women: gender based taxation, wage subsidies or basic income? |
| topic | gender guaranteed income taxation wage incentive |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19127250124919454329-What’s-best-for-women-gender-b.htm |