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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 importance of income-tested benefits in good times and bad : lessons from EU countries

Leventi, Chrysa; Rastrigina, Olga; Sutherland, Holly - 2016

distribution is also examined. We compare the situation in 2009 with that in 2014 (or 2013) for fifteen EU Member States … those in strong recovery by 2014. As EU-SILC micro-data containing household income for 2013 or 2014 are not available yet …, standard EUROMOD routines are enhanced with additional adjustments to the EU-SILC based input data in order to take into …

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Work incentives at the extensive and intensive margin in Europe : the role of taxes, benefits and population characteristics

Jara, H. Xavier; Gasior, Katrin; Makovec, Mattia - 2019

EU. Our analysis makes use of microsimulation techniques and representative household surveys from all 28 EU countries to … results highlight the large variation in the distribution of work incentives across EU countries, explained not only by …

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Baseline results from the EU-27 EUROMOD (2009 - 2013)

Jara, H. Xavier; Leventi, Chrysa - 2014

model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality … and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and EU-SILC based indicators … of marginal effective tax rates (METR) for all 27 EU countries in order to explore the effect of tax and benefit systems …

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A bird's eye view on 20 years of tax-benefit reforms in Belgium

Decoster, André; Perelman, Sergio; Vandelannoote, Dieter; … - 2015

Belgium has seen major changes in its tax-benefit system over the past twenty years. These changes have, to a large extent, co-determined the evolution of disposable incomes of Belgian households on one hand, and their incentives to work on the other. In this paper we assess equity and...

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Revisiting the economic case for fiscal union in the euro area

Berger, Helge; Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni; Obstfeld, Maurice - 2019

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Local autonomy and government spending multipliers : evidence from European regions

Pappa, Euē; Valentinyi, Ákos; Brückner, Markus - 2019

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Corona policy according to hank

Hagedorn, Marcus; Mitman, Kurt - 2020

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Low incentives to work at the extensive and intensive margin in selected EU countries

Jara, H. Xavier; Gasior, Katrin; Makovec, Mattia - 2017

margin of labour supply. The aim of this research note is to provide a comparative analysis of work incentives in selected EU … countries. Our analysis makes use of EUROMOD and representative household microdata from nine EU countries (Belgium, Bulgaria …

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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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