Welfare Reform and the Negative Income Tax

1980 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 453
Author(s):  
Walter Nicholson ◽  
Martin Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

Welfare Reform and the Labor Market

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc K. Chan ◽  
Robert Moffitt
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Supply Model ◽  
Negative Income Tax ◽  
Welfare Reforms

This article reviews the basic theoretical models that are appropriate for analyzing different types of welfare reforms, as well as the related empirical literature. We first present the canonical labor supply model of a classical welfare program and then extend this basic framework to include in-kind transfers, incomplete take-up, human capital, preference persistence, and borrowing and saving. The empirical literature on these models is presented. The negative income tax, earnings subsidies, US welfare reforms with features that differ from those in other countries, and childcare reforms are then surveyed in terms of both the theoretical models and the empirical literature surrounding each.

THE NEGATIVE INCOME TAX AND THE SUPPLY OF WORK EFFORT

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-367
Author(s):  
MICHAEL JAY BOSKIN
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Work Effort ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

scholarly journals A Negative-Income-Tax Experiment

1972 ◽  
Vol 227 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Kershaw
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

scholarly journals Labour Supply Implications of a Negative Income Tax Plan

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-721
Author(s):  
Arun S. Roy
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Work Effort ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Younger Workers ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

This study demonstrates that a Negative Income Tax Plan can be expected to result in fairly large reductions in the supply of work effort in the case of younger workers. The potential reductions in labour supply of female workers appear to be particularly large.

Another Low Road to Basic Income? Mapping a Pragmatic Model for Adopting a Basic Income in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy A Smith-Carrier ◽  
Steven Green
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Income Security ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

AbstractDrawing from both theoretical and empirical research, the literature on basic income (BI) is now voluminous, pronouncing both its merits and its limitations. Burgeoning research documents the impacts of un/conditional cash transfers and negative income tax programs, with many studies highlighting the effectiveness of these programs in reducing poverty, and improving a host of social, economic and health outcomes. We consider possible avenues for BI architecture to be adopted within Canada’s existing constellation of income security programs, to the benefit of disadvantaged groups in society. Identifying key federal and provincial (i.e., Ontario) transfer and tax benefit programs, we highlight which programs might best be maintained or converted to a BI. While opponents decry the (alleged) exorbitant costs of BI schemes, we suggest that the existing approach not only produces an ineffective system—which actually engenders poverty and the health and social problems that accompany it—but an excessively costly one.

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