policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty …

This paper aims to disentangle the driving factors behind the changes in income inequality in the Baltics since the EU … accession, distinguishing between primary income effect, discrete changes in tax-benefit policies and demographic effect … and re-weighting techniques. Decomposition of the total change in inequality showed that income and policy effects are …

income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing … purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed …

The flat income tax has become increasingly popular recently, yet its implementation is limited to Eastern Europe. We … are more likely to benefit from flat taxes. -- Flat tax reform ; income distribution ; work incentives ; microsimulation …

. -- flat tax ; income distribution ; microsimulation ; labour supply …

shape income distributions in 19 EU countries, focusing on the differences between Western European countries (EU15) and … ; Hungary ; Poland ; Slovenia ; income distribution ; taxes ; benefits …

This paper evaluates income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using two … future research, where each approach may inform improvements in the other. -- income ; microsimulation ; poverty ; inequality …

us to estimate the direct effect of tax-benefit policy changes in 2008-2014 on the income distribution, poverty and … of challenging economic problems in this period. However, this has been accompanied by reductions in household income in …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of cash social benefits on work incentives at the bottom of the income … and official OECD/EC indicators. The analysis revealed high disincentives to work at the bottom of the Lithuanian income … among low earners without eroding the minimum income protection floor. …

upper middle of the income distribution and the main losers were at the bottom and those close to, but not at, the very top …