Almeida, Vanda; Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Christl, Michael; … - 2020
We analyse the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on EU households' income and assess the cushioning effect of discretionary … policy measures taken by the EU Member States. Our assessment is based on the European Commission Spring 2020 forecasts and …, households' disposable income in the EU would fall by -5.9% due to the COVID-19 crisis without discretionary policy measures, and …