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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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