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and re-weighting techniques. Decomposition of the total change in inequality showed that income and policy effects are …This paper aims to disentangle the driving factors behind the changes in income inequality in the Baltics since the EU …. Evaluation of the three effects was based on counterfactual scenarios, which were constructed using taxbenefit microsimulation …
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microsimulation techniques and applying the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD in combination with EUSILC household micro-data, we separate … most countries, changes in market income and population characteristics had a poverty- and inequality-increasing effect …, while policies were more often poverty- and inequality-reducing. However, there is no clear country-level correlation …
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can amount to substantial amounts of foregone revenue. In this paper we use EUROMOD, a tax-benefit micro-simulation model … explicit income targeting. We find that with a few exceptions the impact of tax allowances and tax credits on inequality is …
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lack of timely household micro data, using microsimulation techniques with up-to-date information on policy rules enables … inequality levels in 10 EU countries, as well as track most recent trends by evaluating policy effects in 2013-2014. We identify …
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We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the income distribution and poverty risk of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of the policy design itself, size of the benefits and the interaction between policies and population...
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size and structure. We explore their redistributive effects using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU …
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RUSMOD is a static tax-benefit microsimulation model for Russia. The model can be used for ex post and ex ante … in Russia. The final estimates of poverty and inequality from RUSMOD are very close to those based on National accounts …
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representatives of alternative family policy models. Using microsimulation models (RUSMOD and EUROMOD), this paper estimates the …
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This paper aims to analyse the social assistance systems in five South European countries: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. After reviewing the existing system of social assistance in each country, we apply a consistent methodology in order to estimate its impact on income...
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of this group, and we use the microsimulation model EUROMOD to examine the extent to which differences in child benefits …
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