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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …