Analysis of transfer payments: Support for families from public institutions
Duration:
05/2021
—
06/2029
Total Project Duration
8 Jahre
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The project
How effectively are families supported?
The aim of the project is to determine the current contribution of the public sector to covering the costs of childcare and to analyse the fairness of distribution between different types of households. In this way, a possible need for improvement could be precisely identified.
Our activities in the project
The calculation of the contributions made by the public sector to cover the costs of childcare is based on the concept of "child-induced" transfer payments and a microsimulation model for Austria, which we have also developed.
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Customers
Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
Project partner
Details of the project
The Austrian system for supporting households with children is highly differentiated. The interaction between the federal, provincial and municipal levels was analysed more comprehensively than ever before in the study "Analysis of transfer payments to support households with children in Austria" using simulated tax and transfer accounts for thousands of systematically generated household constellations and evaluated at an Austrian level.
The study uses the concept of "child-induced" transfer payments to determine the contributions made by the public sector to cover child-related costs. They reflect the transfer amount that results for households with children compared to childless reference households. The complex interaction of the three levels of government results in a system that has a strong redistributive effect: The lowest income range has its child costs largely covered and receives the highest transfers, after which these fall as income rises.
The current contribution of the public sector to covering the costs incurred for children was determined for the first time for the year 2021 and analysed in terms of distributive justice between different household types in order to identify any potential areas for improvement in a targeted manner. Since then, the analysis has been updated every two years. In this way, a time series on "child-induced" transfer payments is gradually being created, which allows conclusions to be drawn about their longer-term development.