%0 Journal Article
%T Making Work Pay in Slovenia
%A Lapor£¿ek
%A Suzana
%A Vodopivec
%A Matija
%A Vodopivec
%A Milan
%J -
%D 2019
%R 10.3935/rsp.v26i3.1582
%X Sa£¿etak The paper analyzes incentives for making transition from non-employment to work as expressed by various financial indicators in Slovenia and compares them to the EU countries. It also provides an overview of the main features of making-work-pay policies and discusses reasoning for their implementation in Slovenia. The paper shows that in Slovenia, families and individuals who are not working have poor incentives to find a job ¨C because for many, ¡°it does not pay to work.¡± Unemployment benefits and cash transfers, coupled with high tax wedge, create high work disincentives. To address this issue, Slovenia should consider introducing into-work benefits, in-work benefits, or both. Presently such policies are virtually non-existent. In the light of international successful experiences with such policies and given the strong work disincentive created by unemployment, inactivity and low-pay traps, in Slovenia such policies have a great potential to stimulate transitions from non-employment to employment and stay in employment
%K making work pay
%K in-work benefits
%K into work benefits
%K unemployment trap
%K inactivity trap
%K low wage trap
%K Slovenia
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