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Coverage and adequacy of minimum income schemes in the European Union

Figari, Francesco; Haux, Tina; Matsaganis, Manos; … - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to explore and compare the effectiveness of Minimum Income (MI) schemes in protecting people of working age from poverty in the European Union. Using the EU-wide microsimulation model EUROMOD, we investigate (a) coverage and (b) adequacy of MI schemes in 18...

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Coverage and adequacy of minimum income schemes in the European Union

Figari, Francesco; Haux, Tina; Matsaganis, Manos; … - 2010

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Coverage and adequacy of minimum income schemes in the European Union

Figari, Francesco; Haux, Tina; Matsaganis, Manos; … - 2010

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The financial well-being of older people in Europe and the redistributive effects of minimum pension schemes

Figari, Francesco; Matsaganis, Manos; Sutherland, Holly - 2011

This study analyses the financial well-being of elderly people across Europe. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, which facilitates the identification of minimum pension schemes in a comparable way across countries, we show the extent to which these schemes serve to reduce the risk...

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The impact of means tested assistance in Southern Europe

O'Donoghue, Cathal; Albuquerque, Jose; Baldini, Massimo; … - 2002

This paper aims to analyse the social assistance systems in five South European countries: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. After reviewing the existing system of social assistance in each country, we apply a consistent methodology in order to estimate its impact on income...

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Coverage and adequacy of minimum income schemes in the European Union

Figari, Francesco; Haux, Tina; Matsaganis, Manos; … - 2010

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The Financial Well-Being of Elderly People in Europe and the Redistributive Effects of Minimum Pension Schemes

Figari, Francesco - 2013

This study analyses the financial well-being of elderly people across Europe. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, which facilitates the identification of minimum pension schemes in a comparable way across countries, we gather together new empirical findings on the redistributive...

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Towards a European Union child basic income? : within and between country effects

Levy, Horacio; Matsaganis, Manos; Sutherland, Holly - 2013

This paper explores the within and between country distributional implications of an illustrative Child Basic Income (CBI) operated at EU level. Using EUROMOD, we establish that a universal payment of €50 per month per child aged under 6 could take 800,000 children in this age group out of...

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Recent changes in housing policies and their distributional impact across Europe

Figari, Francesco; Hollan, Katarina; Matsaganis, Manos; … - 2019

This paper aims to explore how housing allowances and mortgage interest tax relief have evolved in recent years, against the background of falling disposable incomes and rising housing costs. The analysis focuses on seven EU countries (Greece, Italy, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and...

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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2000

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …

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