also scrutinizes how governments affect EOp through the design of their tax and transfer schemes. Our overall results …-Saxon countries. For Eastern Europe, our results are less definite. Looking at the impact of the tax and benefit schemes in the EU, it … can be concluded that both taxes and transfers reduce inequality of opportunities, with social benefits typically playing …

-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation …This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax … model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work incentives at the extensive margin – the participation tax rate, which …

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an …

different normative focus of the two approaches and show that benefits have other aims than redistribution. Finally, our country … countries. -- Inequality ; redistribution ; decomposition ; tax benefit systems …How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores …

This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income … country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on market income and employment are mitigated by taxes and transfers. We … find that the aggregate redistributive effect of the tax and transfer systems increases in response to the shocks. But the …

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … tax and transfer systems by a European system would lead to significant redistributive effects both within and across …

on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution … at the structure of benefits, particularly unemployment benefits and public pensions are responsible for the inequality … reducing impact. More targeted benefits, however, do not significantly reduce income inequality. Rather, their positive effect …

We examine the revenue and redistributive effects of tax policy reforms in twelve European countries over the decade … wage growth and progressivity of the tax system determined the fiscal leeway which governments could use to reduce income … of the examined countries in the CEE region led to increases in tax progressivity, their income tax systems continue to …

household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that …

We compute participation tax rates across the EU and find that work disincentives inherent in tax-benefit systems …