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This study analyses the financial well-being of elderly people across Europe. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, which facilitates the identification of minimum pension schemes in a comparable way across countries, we show the extent to which these schemes serve to reduce the risk...
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EUROMOD based on EU-SILC data and combined with up-to-date macro-level statistics from the Labour Force Survey. The method is … applied to 12 EU Member States for the period 2009-2013. Its performance is assessed by comparing the EUROMOD estimates with …
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policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty …") the current at-risk-of-poverty rate for the European Union (EU) countries based on EU-SILC microdata from a previous … period. The EU tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used for this purpose in combination with up to date macro …
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-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income … inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and EU-SILC based … estimates of marginal effective tax rates (METR) for all 27 EU countries in order to explore the effect of tax and benefit …
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We compare the distributional effects of policy changes presented as fiscal consolidation measures in nine EU countries …, using the EU microsimulation model EUROMOD. The nine countries, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal …
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-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of constructing and updating EUROMOD. We then present … EU-SILC based indicators. We further compare EUROMOD indicators across countries and over time between 2007 and 2010 …. Finally, we provide estimates of marginal effective tax rates (METR) for all 27 EU countries in order to explore the effect of …
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The 2008-09 crisis has shown that some euro area member countries were unable to sufficiently stabilize their economies which has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze the redistributive and stabilizing effects of two scenarios of fiscal...
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EU-15 countries and the evolution over the period 1998-2008, using EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax-benefit model. The research …
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model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality … and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and EU-SILC based indicators … of marginal effective tax rates (METR) for all 27 EU countries in order to explore the effect of tax and benefit systems …
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This paper addresses the problem of the normative evaluation of income tax systems and income tax reforms. While most of the existing criteria, framed in the utilitarian tradition, are uniquely based on information about individual incomes, this paper, building upon the opportunity egalitarian...
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