The differential impact of comparable Basic Income (BI) schemes is examined for two countries by Callan et al (1996). This study uses national tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ireland (SWITCH) and the UK (POLIMOD). It finds that the relative effect of a scheme depends on the way in which...

Proposals for reforming the current system of taxes and transfers with a basic income and flat tax have received considerable attention in recent years in the UK and Ireland. Microsimulation models have played a central role in the formulation, the assessment, and the reformulation of these...

This paper discusses the comparative research process and describes issues which have been faced and lessons learnt in the process of carrying out a number of cross-national comparisons of women's employment careers. Data from a seven country comparison carried out by the ESF Scientific Network...

This paper sets out to explore the use of panel data through an examination of a topic which is particularly suited to analysis with panel data; that of labour mobility. Labour mobility is the transition from one employment state to another over time. In this paper we will be mainly concerned...

The paper documents the changes of job, employer and occupations in the year prior to the Wave 1 interview of the BHPS, and describes how these changes relate to various individual and job related characteristics.

British society is said to be undergoing a period of major change. What happens to individuals, families and households as they cope with and respond to change, and as they themselves change, is the major descriptive aim of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). More importantly, the BHPS is...

This paper examines the reliability of data on individuals' past experiences of unemployment spells which has been gained by asking individuals to recall these spells and the dates of their occurrence. It compares two sources of retrospective data; the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) Wave 2...

The main question addressed in this paper is when and about what can accurate information concerning individuals' pasts be collected and furthermore, when is it necessary to ask people concurrently about the experiences in question? Evidence has been collected from various research studies which...

Over the last few years concern for income inequality in European countries has increased remarkably. In this context, taxation is an important redistributive instrument and we investigate the redistributive role of direct taxes. We focus on the EU-15 countries and the evolution over the period...

 The economic crisis affecting Cyprus is likely to have considerable impact on the income distribution. Our analysis provides an early assessment of the short-run distributional effects of austerity measures. We distinguish between fiscal measures that affect wages, taxes and contribution...