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Adapting EUROMOD for use in a developing country: The case of South Africa and SAMOD
Wilkinson, Kate - 2009
This paper describes the construction of a microsimulation model for South Africa (SAMOD), which is based upon the … EUROMOD platform. The paper discusses the need for a new microsimulation model in South Africa, the reasons why EUROMOD was a … their own microsimulation models in other countries. Particular attention is given to the way that South Africa, as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288284
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Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Decoster, André; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288286
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Can in-work benefits improve social inclusion in the Southern European countries?
Figari, Francesco - 2009
Southern European Countries using EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax-benefit microsimulation model. In-Work Benefits (IWBs) are means …-tested cash transfers given to individuals, through the tax system, conditional on their employment status. They are intended to … trade off between the redistributive and the incentive effects of the different policies. Family-based in-work benefits are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288279
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Automatic stabilisers and economic crisis: US vs Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288285
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Tax-benefit systems in Europe and the US: Between equity and efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2011
shed new light on this question, we estimate labor supply elasticities on microdata and adopt an inverted optimal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288262