analysis here serves as an updated picture of the distributional effects of the indirect tax system in Ireland, as well as a … base for future microsimulation analysis of simultaneous direct tax, indirect tax and welfare reform. …

extending these transfers in Ireland, where support for low-wage households has been of limited scope. The employment and … poverty effects of alternative policies are analyzed thanks to counterfactual simulations built using a micro-simulation model …, the Living in Ireland Survey 2001 and labour supply estimations. Firstly, we study the effect of recent extensions of the …