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 …

, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue (fiscal neutrality), the effects of various hypothetical tax … to the current tax-transfer systems. The exercise can be considered as one of empirical optimal taxation, where the … basic income (Universal or Participation Basic Income) and adopting progressive tax-rules. If – besides the fiscal …

This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model …-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components: First, a static module simulates the effects of a tax-benefit reform on … most other microsimulation tools. A demand module takes into account possible restrictions of labor demand and identifies …

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 …

[psi]MOD ; microsimulation ; tax and benefit systems ; labor demand …This paper describes IZA[psi]MOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The …-employee dataset LIAB. IZA[psi]MOD consists of three components: First, a static module simulates the effects of a tax reform on the …