An ex ante evaluation of the Revenu de Solidarité Active by micro-macro simulation techniques

Artikel

This paper aims to investigate the effects of the introduction of an active welfare state measure in France, the Revenu de Solidarité Active, which replaced the old system of social minima. By using a micro-macro simulation model, we characterize the effects on households' disposable income, labor supply, wages, GDP, public deficit, and other micro and macroeconomic aspects. Our findings suggest that although increasing public expenditure, the reform largely repays its cost by reducing involuntary unemployment, increasing labor supply and private consumption and thus improves GDP and the deficit/GDP ratio. If the great recession did not occur, poverty and inequality would have been significantly reduced by the RSA reform.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies ; ISSN: 2193-9012 ; Volume: 4 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 17 ; Pages: 1-20 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Computational Techniques; Simulation Modeling ; Computable General Equilibrium Models ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
• Subject: Revenue de Solidarité active ; RSA ; Active welfare state ; Microsimulation ; CGE ; Micro-macro ; Labour supply ; Policy evaluation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Canova, Luciano ; Piccoli, Luca ; Spadaro, Amedeo
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40174-015-0040-3
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127459
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET