o:29214 Reduction of child poverty in Serbia Benefit or employment strategy? en Abstract Based on the Serbian Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC) and tax-benefits andstructural micro-simulation models, we evaluate the labour supply and distributive effects ofseveral reform strategies concerning two major social transfers in Serbia: child allowance andsocial monetary assistance. Our results show that, in a context of a low labour participation rate,and high unemployment and informality rates, a benefit strategy is by far the more cost-effectiveoption for reducing child poverty than an employment strategy that aims to raise the workincentives for parents. Both proposed reforms are found to be progressive. Keywords: child poverty, tax-benefit microsimulation, structural microsimulation, tax andbenefits reforms, labour supply, Serbia 1552099 10.1111/ecot.12197 1552101 2577-6983 2023-05-09T10:43:02.311Z 44 no 46 Nicholas-James Clavet Luca Tiberti person Marko Vladisavljević person Jelena Žarković Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 12940647 0000-0002-4251-8460 Aleksandra Anić Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 27420007 0000-0002-3058-0777 Gorana Krstić Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 13831783 0000-0003-3171-8050 Saša Ranđelović Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 13835367 0000-0001-8445-9756 application/pdf 446158 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:29214 no yes 1 70 92000001 11A03 Economics of Transition and Institutional Change 27 3 615 645 2019