The Working Families' Tax Credit and some European tax reforms in a collectice setting

Michal Myck, Olivier Bargain, Miriam Beblo, Denis Beninger, Richard Blundell (r.blundell@ucl.ac.uk), Raquel Carrasco (raquel.carrasco@ucm.es), Marie-Concetta Chiuri, Francois Laisney, Valerie Lechene, Ernesto Longobardi, Nicolas Moreau, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen
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Miriam Beblo: Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim, Germany) - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - University of Mannheim = Universität Mannheim
Denis Beninger: Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim, Germany) - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - University of Mannheim = Universität Mannheim
Marie-Concetta Chiuri: CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labor and Demographics - UNITO - Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin, UNIBA - Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro = University of Bari Aldo Moro
Valerie Lechene: IFS - Laboratory of the Institute for Fiscal Studies - Institute for Fiscal Studies
Ernesto Longobardi: UNIBA - Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro = University of Bari Aldo Moro

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Abstract: A framework for simplified implementation of the collective model of labor supply decisions is presented in the context of fiscal reforms in the UK. Through its collective form the model accounts for the well known problem of distribution between wallet and purse, a broadly debated issue which has so far been impossible to model due to the limitations of the unitary model of household behavior. A calibrated data set is used to model the effects of introducing two forms of the Working Families' Tax Credit. We also summarize results of estimations and calibrations obtained using the same methodology on data from five other European countries. The results underline the importance of taking account of the intrahousehold decision process and suggest that who receives government transfers does matter from the point of view of labor supply and welfare of household members. They also highlight the need for more research into models of household behavior.

Date: 2006-06
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Published in Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, 4, pp.129-158. ⟨10.1007/s11150-006-0003-6⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s11150-006-0003-6

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