MEANS-TESTED BENEFITS, INCENTIVES AND EARNINGS DISTRIBUTIONS
by
JOHN CREEDY & ROSANNA SCUTELLA
JULY 2000
Department of Economics. University of Melbourne. Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Labour Supply and Earnings
1. A Means-Tested Benefit
2. The Earnings Distribution
3. A Cost of Claiming Benefits
4. Further Complications
3. A Simulation Analysis
1. Simulated Distributions
2. Some General Properties
4. Empirical Distributions
1 . Income Distribution Survey Data
2. Unemployment Benefit Claimants
5. Conclusions
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