) recommend to consider income, consumption and wealth and to give more prominence to their joint distribution. New household … surveys as those developed as part of the Luxembourg Wealth Study and the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Network … introduced into the EUROMOD simulations such as wealth taxation, incentives for wealth accumulation and asset tests determining …

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of … the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household … countries. As a result, the top percentile share of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent to 31 percent in the …

Taxing wealth has received increased attention in both the academic and political debate, as a way to reduce inequality … of both income and wealth. However, analytical tools are still underdeveloped when it comes to empirical analyses of … different types of wealth-related taxes and policies. New household surveys as those developed as part of the Eurosystem …

EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. We begin by presenting indicators for income inequality and at-risk-of-poverty …

, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … support also reduces poverty intensity and incidence, although not to a large extent. …

children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a … states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The … findings suggest that to achieve significant poverty reductions among young children, both additional childcare slots and …

Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … their degree of coverage and adequacy, their poverty-alleviating effects and their overall cost. Finally, we explore the …

, revenues from the inheritance and gift tax are relatively low. This points towards a large-scale transfer of wealth from one … generation to the next that is largely untaxed and thereby maintaining the high degree of wealth inequality observed in Germany …

household-level wealth distribution in five selected EU member countries (Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, and Italy) to … derive inheritances based on different demographic and wealth projection scenarios. On this basis, various inheritance tax … that multiple factors coincide in favouring a growing revenue potential for inheritance taxation in the medium-term. Wealth …

inequality and at-risk-of-poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for the differences between these and their …