Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2014
France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …