The working families' tax credit and some European tax reforms in a collective setting

Review of Economics of the Household

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-158

  Myck, Michal ^a,b   Bargain, Olivier ^c,d   Beblo, Miriam ^e   Beninger, Denis ^e   Blundell, Richard ^a,f   Carrasco, Raquel ^g   Chiuri, Maria Concetta ^d,h   Laisney, François ^e,i   Lechene, Valérie ^a,j   Longobardi, Ernesto ^h   Moreau, Nicolas ^k   Ruiz Castillo, Javier ^g   Vermeulen, Frederic ^l  

^a INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d CHILD   (Italy)

^e CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

^j WADHAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^k TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^l TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Collective models; Fiscal reforms; Household labor supply; Intrahousehold allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646585488     PISSN: 15695239     EISSN: 15737152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11150-006-0003-6     Document Type: Article

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