article describes which data sources are used for the simulation, how key features of the German tax and transfer system are …This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic … Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating …

assess the role of tax-benefit systems to explain these differences. Using newly developed tax-benefit microsimulations for …, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These countries show contrasted situations in terms of income distribution. We … distribution between the contribution of tax-benefit policies versus the contribution of other factors (market income distributions …

responses in microsimulation models. The paper focuses attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: the discrete … models for policy simulation in terms of producing and interpreting simulation outcomes, outlining an extensive literature of … responses but also for identifying optimal tax-benefit systems, given some of the challenges of the theoretical approach …

components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In … benefits are largely associated with cyclical changes in average benefit rates. In contrast, trends in the redistributive … effects of direct and indirect taxes are mostly associated with changes in progressivity. For in-kind benefits, changes in the …

the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income …

comparative) impact of mobility and of the tax system (another presumed income equalizer) on the dynamics of income across time … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits …, often amounting to around 30 percent of mean income. For all choices of parameter values, the tax effect exceeds by far the …

overcome the lack of data by proposing a dynamic calibrated microsimulation approach to generate counterfactual income … using publicly available data and a household income generation model to perform the first calibrated simulation based upon …

We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal … (social welfare maximizing) tax-transfer rules. We consider the class of tax-transfer rules consisting of a universal basic … income and a tax defined by a 4th degree polynomial. The rule is applied to total taxable household income. A …

In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U ….S. safety net (broadly defined) during the Great Recession of 2007-2008. -- taxes ; welfare ; families ; EITC ; child tax credit …

transfers do not decline, indicating no loss in redistribution. Our estimates imply a 9-14% social tax rate. The welfare … benefits of informal redistribution may come at a cost, depressing labor supply and productivity. … frequent. Such arrangements may distort labor supply - acting as a "social tax" that dampens the incentive to work. We document …