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Incomes, Incentives and the Growth of Means Testing in Hungary
Incomes, Incentives and the Growth of Means Testing in Hungary
dc.contributor.author | Redmond, Gerry | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-25T12:34:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-25T12:34:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1998 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper a new microsimulation model for Hungary is used to simulate the full impact of the April 1996 reforms to child-related benefits. This, Family Allowance is means tested, and earnings-related maternity and child care pay are replaced with means-tested flat-rate payments. Because of increases in levels of flat-rate maternity/child care payments, the overall effect of the reforms is found to be mildly progressive compared with the 1995 system. However, the targeting of child-related payments is still found to be spread throughout the income distribution, rather than focused on low-income households. An alternative scheme, modelled on the UK means-tested benefits system, achieves a much greater level of targeting, but has the side-effect of greatly increasing the effective marginal tax rates of low-income working households with children. In view of the poverty and employment traps that such marginal taxation has caused in the UK, the paper cautions against the over-extension of means testing in the Hungarian benefits system. | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 0733404979 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1447-8978 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/34033 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | EN | en_US |
dc.publisher | Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | SPRC Discussion Paper | en_US |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ | en_US |
dc.source | Legacy MARC | en_US |
dc.title | Incomes, Incentives and the Growth of Means Testing in Hungary | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | en_US |
unsw.accessRights.uri | https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 | |
unsw.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/218 | |
unsw.publisher.place | Sydney | en_US |
unsw.relation.faculty | Arts Design & Architecture | |
unsw.relation.ispartofworkingpapernumber | 87 | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Redmond, Gerry, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.school | Social Policy Research Centre | * |
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