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Optimal taxation, social contract and the four worlds of welfare capitalism
Spadaro, Amedeo (contributor) - 2008
Drawing from the formal setting of the optimal tax theory (Mirrlees 1971), the paper identifies the level of Rawlsianism of some European social planners starting from the observation of real data and redistribution systems and uses it to build a metric that allows measuring the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766252
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The effects of taxes and benefits on income distribution in the enlarged EU
Paulus, Alari; Čok, Mitja; Figari, Francesco; … - 2009
Tax and benefit systems in the enlarged EU vary significantly in size and structure. We examine how taxes and benefits … shape income distributions in 19 EU countries, focusing on the differences between Western European countries (EU15) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989841
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Economic downturn and stress testing European welfare systems
Figari, Francesco; Salvatori, Andrea; Sutherland, Holly - 2010
As unemployment rises across the European Union (EU) it is important to understand the extent to which the incomes of … of this increase in unemployment. This paper uses the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to explore these issues, comparing … effects in five EU countries. It provides evidence on the differing degrees of resilience of the household incomes of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989860
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The financial well-being of older people in Europe and the redistributive effects of minimum pension schemes
Figari, Francesco; Matsaganis, Manos; Sutherland, Holly - 2011
This study analyses the financial well-being of elderly people across Europe. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, which facilitates the identification of minimum pension schemes in a comparable way across countries, we show the extent to which these schemes serve to reduce the risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487506
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Were we really all in it together? : the distributional effects of the 2010 - 2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes ; an end-of-term update
De Agostini, Paola; Hills, John R.; Sutherland, Holly - 2015
This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317097
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Fiscal integration in the Eurozone : economic effects of two key scenarios
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2014
The 2008-09 crisis has shown that some euro area member countries were unable to sufficiently stabilize their economies which has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze the redistributive and stabilizing effects of two scenarios of fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234019
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The implications of an EMU unemployment insurance scheme for supporting incomes
Jara, H. Xavier; Sutherland, Holly - 2014
In this paper we explore the potential of a new unemployment insurance benefit at EMU level to improve the income protection available to the unemployed and their families. The benefit is designed to be additional to existing national provision where this falls short in terms of eligibility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340293
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An exploration of real-time revisions of output gap estimates across European countries
Hernández de Cos, Pablo; Lacuesta, Aitor; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547123
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537221
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537299