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The 2008 financial crisis and taxation policy

Hemmelgarn, Thomas; Nicodème, Gaëtan J.A. - 2010

crisis. In particular, it reviews the existing evidence on the links between taxes and many characteristics of the crisis …

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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 effects of taxes and benefits on income distribution in the enlarged EU

Paulus, Alari; Čok, Mitja; Figari, Francesco; … - 2009

Tax and benefit systems in the enlarged EU vary significantly in size and structure. We examine how taxes and benefits … model, which simulates taxes and benefits for representative samples of household micro-data and through a common framework … and composition of incomes, and the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. -- European Union ; Estonia …

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Were we really all in it together? : the distributional effects of the 2010 - 2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes ; an end-of-term update

De Agostini, Paola; Hills, John R.; Sutherland, Holly - 2015

This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes … the cuts in direct taxes. We find that the relative extent to which the changes most favoured the rich or the poor is …

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The effect of changes in tax-benefit policies on the income distribution in 2008-2015

De Agostini, Paola; Paulus, Alari; Tasseva, Iva - 2016

We apply microsimulation techniques to estimate the first-order effects of tax-benefit policy changes since the beginning of the financial and economic crisis in 2008. Using the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD in combination with the EU-SILC 2012 micro-data, we provide comparative estimates for...

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Accounting for gender differences in the distributional effects of tax and benefit policy changes

Avram, Silvia; Popova, Daria; Rastrigina, Olga - 2016

The distributional impact of policy changes is usually considered in terms of equivalised household income, assuming that each individual within the household is being affected in the same way, as a result of complete income pooling. The aim of this paper is to extend this approach by...

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Tax and transfer policies and female labor supply in the EU

Kalíšková, Klára - 2015

This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...

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

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

Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

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An introduction to EUROMOD

Immervoll, Herwig; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Sutherland, Holly - 1999

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Tax Cuts Starve the Beast! Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens - 2020

and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in …

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