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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 idea of a common unemployment benefit system for the European Monetary Union (EMU) has provoked increasing interest in both the political and academic spheres because of its potential to smooth fluctuations in income across member states and to strengthen income security for the unemployed....
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Western countries' income tax systems exempt the return from investing in owner-occupied housing. Returns from other investments are instead taxed, thus distorting households’ portfolio choices, although it is argued that housing property taxation might act as a counterbalance. Based on data...
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underlying micro-database for the EU taxbenefit model, EUROMOD. This will allow expanding the policy domains currently covered in …
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gaps in national unemployment insurance schemes are assessed. We make use of EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax …
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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 …
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and of the effectiveness of tax and benefit policies. However, partly due to the complexity of EU-SILC data collection … model’s routines are enhanced with additional adjustments to the EU-SILC based input data in order to capture changes in the … employment characteristics of the population since the data were collected. The nowcasting method is applied to twenty-five EU …
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We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect the incomes of men and women. Using microsimulation and intra-household income splitting rules, we measure the differences in the level and composition of individual disposable...
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poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …
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limiting its increase, comparing within and between seven diverse EU countries. We do that by measuring the implications of …
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