IMF Working Papers

Unemployment Benefits Versus Conditional Negative Income Taxes

By Dennis J. Snower

July 1, 1995

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Dennis J. Snower Unemployment Benefits Versus Conditional Negative Income Taxes, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed December 14, 2024
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Summary

The paper analyzes the wage-employment effects of replacing unemployment benefits by negative income taxes. It first surveys the major equity and efficiency effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes, and summarizes the salient features of many European unemployment benefit systems in this light. Second, it presents a simple theoretical model that focuses on the relative wage-employment effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes. Finally, it provides some empirical groundwork for assessing this relative effect

Subject: Employment, Expenditure, Income tax systems, Labor, Personal income tax, Taxes, Unemployment, Unemployment benefits

Keywords: Employment, Europe, Government budget constraint, Income tax systems, Negative income tax scheme, Negative income tax system, Personal income tax, Systems operative, Unemployment, Unemployment benefit system, Unemployment benefits, Unemployment insurance, Western Europe, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1995/065

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0651995

  • ISBN:

    9781451848649

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941