inequality is small. Tax credits are generally more progressive than tax allowances. The design of the allowances/credits appears …

can amount to substantial amounts of foregone revenue. In this paper we use EUROMOD, a tax-benefit micro-simulation model … explicit income targeting. We find that with a few exceptions the impact of tax allowances and tax credits on inequality is …

-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …

the housing advantage of homeowners and social tenants. We use the Euromod microsimulation model to simulate housing … policies in Estonia, Italy and the United Kingdom. Disentangling the contribution to inequality and poverty of each housing … impact on inequality in Estonia and on both inequality and relative poverty in Italy. In all three countries, housing …

This paper quantifies the effect of Poland's 1999 pension reform on the inequality of future pension benefits. The … reform increases inequality, both in the upper and lower parts of the distribution. The estimates, based on the 2012 Polish … the pre-reform system continued unchanged, the Gini coefficient would not be >0.19. The increased inequality of pension …

expectations, a structural labor demand model, and a tax-benefit microsimulation model. Our findings show that as of September 2020 …