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An unemployment insurance scheme for the euro area? : a comparison of different alternatives using micro data

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2015

We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the period...

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The redistributive and stabilising effects of an EMU unemployment benefit scheme under different hypothetical unemployment scenarios

Jara, H. Xavier; Tumino, Alberto; Sutherland, Holly - 2015

The idea of a common unemployment benefit system for the European Monetary Union (EMU) has provoked increasing interest in both the political and academic spheres because of its potential to smooth fluctuations in income across member states and to strengthen income security for the unemployed....

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Homeownership investment and tax neutrality : a joint assessment of income and property taxes in Europe

Figari, Francesco; Verbist, Gerlinde; Zantomio, Francesca - 2019

Western countries' income tax systems exempt the return from investing in owner-occupied housing. Returns from other investments are instead taxed, thus distorting households’ portfolio choices, although it is argued that housing property taxation might act as a counterbalance. Based on data...

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The role of an EMU unemployment insurance scheme on income protection in case of unemployment

Jara, H. Xavier; Sutherland, Holly; Tumino, Alberto - 2016

gaps in national unemployment insurance schemes are assessed. We make use of EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax …

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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

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 EU-27 in 2008-2014 as well as for 21 EU member states in 2014 …-national variation throughout the whole period. At the EU level, policy changes in the first half of the period (2008-2011) were poverty …

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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

EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU, to estimate the effects of changes in tax-benefit policies over the … policy effects easier to observe. This analysis is performed for 18 EU countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic …

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Do welfare state taxes and transfers reduce gender income inequality? : evidence from eight European countries

Avram, Silvia; Popova, Daria - 2020

We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect the incomes of men and women. Using microsimulation and intra-household income splitting rules, we measure the differences in the level and composition of individual disposable...

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The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe : the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies

Popova, Daria; Navickė, Jekaterina - 2019

poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …

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Improving poverty reduction in Europe : what works best where?

Leventi, Chrysa; Sutherland, Holly; Tasseva, Iva Valentinova - 2017

limiting its increase, comparing within and between seven diverse EU countries. We do that by measuring the implications of …

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Dynamic scoring of tax reforms in the European Union

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Dolls, Mathias; Maftei, Anamaria; … - 2017

In this paper, we present the first dynamic scoring exercise linking a multi‐country microsimulation and DSGE models for all countries of the European Union. We illustrate our novel methodology analysing a hypothetical tax reform for Belgium. We then evaluate real tax reforms in Italy and...

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