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Tax-benefit systems in Europe and the US : between equity and efficiency

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2011

approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit …

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Inequalities within couples : market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe

Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007

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An evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in European countries

Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2008

This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD …

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Optimal taxation, social contract and the four worlds of welfare capitalism

Spadaro, Amedeo (contributor) - 2008

Drawing from the formal setting of the optimal tax theory (Mirrlees 1971), the paper identifies the level of Rawlsianism of some European social planners starting from the observation of real data and redistribution systems and uses it to build a metric that allows measuring the degree of...

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The distributional effects of fiscal consolidation in nine EU countries

Avram, Silvia; Figari, Francesco; Leventi, Chrysa; … - 2013

We compare the distributional effects of policy changes presented as fiscal consolidation measures in nine EU countries …, using the EU microsimulation model EUROMOD. The nine countries, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal …

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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain

Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel; Riscado, Sara - 2020

Minimum income schemes are set to provide citizens with a minimum living standard. In Spain, these schemes consist of a heterogeneous and complex collection of regional benefits designed and implemented by the Autonomous Communities. This generates important regional discrepancies among the...

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The income protection role of an EMU wide unemployment insurance system : the case of atypical workers

Jara, H. Xavier; Simon, Agathe - 2021

This paper evaluates the potential of a common unemployment insurance system for the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU-UI) to improve income protection of atypical workers, namely those in part-time and temporary contracts. We use EUROMOD, the European tax-benefit microsimulation model, to...

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Effects of tax-benefit policy changes across the income distributions of the EU-27 countries and the UK ; 2019-2020

Vicente, Joana Andrade - University of Essex / Institute for Social and Economic … - 2021

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Second earners and in-work poverty in Europe

Jara, H. Xavier; Popova, Daria - 2020

moderating this risk. Our analysis refers to 2014 and employs EU-SILC data and EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for … EU-28. We apply a pre-post analysis in combination with microsimulation techniques to assess the role of second earners …

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Effects of tax-benefit policy changes across the income distributions of the EU-27 countries and the UK ; 2018-2019

Andriopoulou, Eirini (contributor) - University of Essex / Institute for Social and Economic … - 2020

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