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Household incomes and redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the equalising properties of taxes and benefits

Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; Lietz, Christine; … - 2006

The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the Member States of the European Union vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their direct impacts on cross-sectional income inequality (termed redistributive effect for the purpose of this paper) using EUROMOD, a tax-benefit...

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The effect of tax-benefit changes on the income distribution in EU countries since the beginning of the economic crisis

De Agostini, Paola; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - 2014

the policy changes for measures of risk of poverty and examines the incidence of the changes by age. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304573

Nowcasting risk of poverty and low work intensity in Europe

Rastrigina, Olga; Leventi, Chrysa; Sutherland, Holly - 2015

Very low work intensity and at-risk-of-poverty are two of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the … method of estimating ('nowcasting') very low work intensity and poverty risk using the tax-benefit microsimulation model …

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The design of fiscal consolidation measures in the European Union: Distributional effects and implications for macroeconomic recovery

Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly - 2015

The financial and economic crisis which started in the late 2000s and the fiscal consolidation measures to counter the subsequent government budget deficits have an impact on household income distribution and macroeconomic recovery. We consider the austerity measures in relation to their...

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Nowcasting risk of poverty and income distribution in the EU in 2013

Leventi, Chrysa; Navicke, Jekaterina; Rastrigina, Olga; … - 2014

The at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 poverty …-SILC), estimates of the number of people at risk of poverty are published with a 2 to 3 year delay. This paper presents a method of … estimating ('nowcasting') the current distribution of income between households, including the at-risk-of-poverty rate, using a …

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The distributional effects of fiscal consolidation in nine EU countries

Avram, Silvia; Figari, Francesco; Leventi, Chrysa; … - 2013

We compare the distributional effects of policy changes presented as fiscal consolidation measures in nine EU countries that experienced large budget deficits following the financial crisis of the late 2000s and subsequent economic downturn, using the EU microsimulation model EUROMOD. The nine...

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Baseline results from the EU27 EUROMOD (2009 - 2012)

Jara, Holguer Xavier; Sutherland, Holly; Avram, Silvia; … - 2013

inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and EU-SILC based …

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Baseline results from the new EU27 EUROMOD (2007-2010)

Jara, Holguer Xavier; Sutherland, Holly; Avram, Silivia; … - 2013

indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331199

The implications of an EMU unemployment insurance scheme for supporting incomes

Jara Tamayo, Holguer Xavier; Sutherland, Holly - 2014

disposable income. We find that the EMU-UI reduces the risk of poverty for the new unemployed and has a positive effect on income … there is little effect of EMU-UI on poverty risk and stabilisation, while Greece, Italy and Latvia benefit the most, in …

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Nowcasting: Estimating developments in the risk of poverty and income distribution in 2013 and 2014

Rastrigina, Olga; Leventi, Chrysa; Sutherland, Holly - 2015

The at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 poverty …, estimates of the number of people at risk of poverty are published with a significant delay. This paper extends and updates … previous work on estimating ('nowcasting') indicators of poverty risk using the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD. The …

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