Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension

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Bergolo Sosa, Marcelo Luis; Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Año de publicación
2014
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This article studies how social insurance programs shape individual's incentives to take up registered employment and to report earnings to the tax authorities. The analysis is based on a social insurance reform in Uruguay that extended healthcare coverage to the dependent children of registered private-sector workers. The identification strategy relies on a comparison between individuals with and without dependent children before and after the reform. The reform increased benefit-eligible registered employment by 1.6 percentage points (about 5% above the pre-reform level), mainly due to an increase in labor force participation rather than to movement from unregistered to registered employment. The shift was greater for parents with younger children and for cohabiting adults whose partners' jobs did not provide the couples' children with access to the benefit. Finally, the reform increased the incidence of underreporting of salaried earnings by about 4 percentage points (25% higher than the pre-reform level), mostly for workers employed at small firms. The increase in fiscal revenue from higher levels of registered employment was several orders of magnitude greater than the loss of revenue due to an increase in underreporting.
Fil: Bergolo Sosa, Marcelo Luis. Universidad de la República; Uruguay. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina
Fil: Cruces, Guillermo Antonio. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Institute for the Study of Labor; Alemania
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LABOR SUPPLY
SOCIAL INSURANCE
TAX EVASION
WORK INCENTIVES
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spelling Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extensionBergolo Sosa, Marcelo LuisCruces, Guillermo AntonioLABOR SUPPLYSOCIAL INSURANCETAX EVASIONWORK INCENTIVEShttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5This article studies how social insurance programs shape individual's incentives to take up registered employment and to report earnings to the tax authorities. The analysis is based on a social insurance reform in Uruguay that extended healthcare coverage to the dependent children of registered private-sector workers. The identification strategy relies on a comparison between individuals with and without dependent children before and after the reform. The reform increased benefit-eligible registered employment by 1.6 percentage points (about 5% above the pre-reform level), mainly due to an increase in labor force participation rather than to movement from unregistered to registered employment. The shift was greater for parents with younger children and for cohabiting adults whose partners' jobs did not provide the couples' children with access to the benefit. Finally, the reform increased the incidence of underreporting of salaried earnings by about 4 percentage points (25% higher than the pre-reform level), mostly for workers employed at small firms. The increase in fiscal revenue from higher levels of registered employment was several orders of magnitude greater than the loss of revenue due to an increase in underreporting.Fil: Bergolo Sosa, Marcelo Luis. Universidad de la República; Uruguay. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Cruces, Guillermo Antonio. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Institute for the Study of Labor; AlemaniaElsevier2014-09info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/32826Bergolo Sosa, Marcelo Luis; Cruces, Guillermo Antonio; Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension; Elsevier; Journal of Public Economics; 117; 9-2014; 211-2280047-2727CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.04.015info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272714001066info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-10-22T11:23:57Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/32826instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-10-22 11:23:58.234CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension
title Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension
spellingShingle Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension
Bergolo Sosa, Marcelo Luis
LABOR SUPPLY
SOCIAL INSURANCE
TAX EVASION
WORK INCENTIVES
title_short Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension
title_full Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension
title_fullStr Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension
title_full_unstemmed Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension
title_sort Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs. Evidence from an employment-based benefit extension
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bergolo Sosa, Marcelo Luis
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
author Bergolo Sosa, Marcelo Luis
author_facet Bergolo Sosa, Marcelo Luis
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
author_role author
author2 Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv LABOR SUPPLY
SOCIAL INSURANCE
TAX EVASION
WORK INCENTIVES
topic LABOR SUPPLY
SOCIAL INSURANCE
TAX EVASION
WORK INCENTIVES
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This article studies how social insurance programs shape individual's incentives to take up registered employment and to report earnings to the tax authorities. The analysis is based on a social insurance reform in Uruguay that extended healthcare coverage to the dependent children of registered private-sector workers. The identification strategy relies on a comparison between individuals with and without dependent children before and after the reform. The reform increased benefit-eligible registered employment by 1.6 percentage points (about 5% above the pre-reform level), mainly due to an increase in labor force participation rather than to movement from unregistered to registered employment. The shift was greater for parents with younger children and for cohabiting adults whose partners' jobs did not provide the couples' children with access to the benefit. Finally, the reform increased the incidence of underreporting of salaried earnings by about 4 percentage points (25% higher than the pre-reform level), mostly for workers employed at small firms. The increase in fiscal revenue from higher levels of registered employment was several orders of magnitude greater than the loss of revenue due to an increase in underreporting.
Fil: Bergolo Sosa, Marcelo Luis. Universidad de la República; Uruguay. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina
Fil: Cruces, Guillermo Antonio. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Institute for the Study of Labor; Alemania
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