We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using … microsimulation methods. Our paper highlights important differences across EU countries' tax-benefit systems, where seven countries …

based on an empirical assessment of the net fiscal contributions of immigrants in the 27 EU Member States using EUROMOD, a … EU-wide tax-benefit microsimulation model. In addition to the traditional view of the tax-benefit system, we add indirect …-cycle perspective, we find that natives generally show a higher net fiscal contribution than both, intra-EU and extra-EU migrants, while …