and women within couples in a selection of the member countries of the European Union (EU) using EUROMOD, the EU tax …

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 …

of the effectiveness of tax and benefit policies. However, partly due to the complexity of EU-SILC data collection … model's routines are enhanced with additional adjustments to the EU-SILC based input data in order to capture changes in the … employment characteristics of the population since the data were collected. The nowcasting method is applied to seventeen EU …

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 …

-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 …

15 "old" members of the European Union and present them for each country separately as well as for the EU-15 as a whole …