Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192560 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 578
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in five European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Norway, Portugal and United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue, the effects of various hypothetical tax-transfer reforms which include alternative versions of a Basic Income mechanisms. We produce various indexes and criteria according to which the reforms can be ranked. The exercise can be considered as one of empirical optimal taxation, where the optimization problem is solved computationally rather than analytically.
Subjects: 
Basic Income
Minimum Guaranteed Income
Models of Labour Supply
Tax Reforms
Welfare Evaluation
Optimal Taxation
JEL: 
C25
H24
H31
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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