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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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Tax and benefit systems in the enlarged EU vary significantly in size and structure. We examine how taxes and benefits … shape income distributions in 19 EU countries, focusing on the differences between Western European countries (EU15) and …
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As unemployment rises across the European Union (EU) it is important to understand the extent to which the incomes of … of this increase in unemployment. This paper uses the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to explore these issues, comparing … effects in five EU countries. It provides evidence on the differing degrees of resilience of the household incomes of the …
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This study analyses the financial well-being of elderly people across Europe. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, which facilitates the identification of minimum pension schemes in a comparable way across countries, we show the extent to which these schemes serve to reduce the risk...
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EUROMOD based on EU-SILC data and combined with up-to-date macro-level statistics from the Labour Force Survey. The method is … applied to 12 EU Member States for the period 2009-2013. Its performance is assessed by comparing the EUROMOD estimates with …
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More than half of the EU countries have become poorer and more unequal since the start of the crisis in 2008. Despite … inequality levels in 10 EU countries, as well as track most recent trends by evaluating policy effects in 2013-2014. We identify … and quantify these effects using the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to construct relevant counterfactual scenarios. Our …
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This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...
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of the effectiveness of tax and benefit policies. However, partly due to the complexity of EU-SILC data collection … model's routines are enhanced with additional adjustments to the EU-SILC based input data in order to capture changes in the … employment characteristics of the population since the data were collected. The nowcasting method is applied to seventeen EU …
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policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty …") the current at-risk-of-poverty rate for the European Union (EU) countries based on EU-SILC microdata from a previous … period. The EU tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used for this purpose in combination with up to date macro …
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