Tax and benefit systems in the enlarged EU vary significantly in size and structure. We examine how taxes and benefits … shape income distributions in 19 EU countries, focusing on the differences between Western European countries (EU15) and …

More than half of the EU countries have become poorer and more unequal since the start of the crisis in 2008. Despite … inequality levels in 10 EU countries, as well as track most recent trends by evaluating policy effects in 2013-2014. We identify … and quantify these effects using the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to construct relevant counterfactual scenarios. Our …

-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 …

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 …