Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal tax rates on earnings. The first reform...