and Belgium, focusing in particular on the reforms carried out in the latter. The potential labor supply effect of the … determining the incentives to take up work; (iii) joint assessment of income for both purposes of taxation and benefit eligibility …

In the period 2001-2004 two major reforms followed in Belgium: a personal income tax reform (2001) and a reform of …

European countries, including Belgium, have shown increasing interest in tax-benefit instruments awarding monetary transfers or …

-age poverty and inequality measures. To do so, we use the survey dataset SHARE and a discrete time logistic duration model to … the household replacement rate plays an important role in decreasing the elderly poverty rate. Since households with … the household replacement rate on poverty measures is a motive to use such mechanism as a poverty alleviation tool …

individual changes over time and focused on the long-term unemployed (LTU). In Belgium the long-term unemployment rate is high … and the household incomes of many LTU are below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. Policy proposals aiming to improve this … in Belgium. During these years there were policy changes that affected work incentives and thus contribute to the …

Belgium has seen major changes in its tax-benefit system over the past twenty years. These changes have, to a large …