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Baseline results from the EU-27 EUROMOD (2009 - 2013)
Jara, H. Xavier; Leventi, Chrysa - 2014
This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD (version G2.1), the tax-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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422113
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Baseline results from the EU27 EUROMOD (2009 - 2012)
Jara, H. Xavier; Sutherland, Holly; Avram, Silvia; De … - 2013
This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD (version F6.36+), the tax-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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009773091
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Baseline results from the new EU27 EUROMOD (2007-2010)
Jara, H. Xavier; Sutherland, Holly; Avram, Silivia; De … - 2013
This paper provides a description of the latest public release of EUROMOD (version F6.0++), a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of constructing and updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712467
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The budgetary and redistributive impact of pension taxation in the EU : a microsimulation analysis
Ivaškaite-Tamošiune, Viginta; Thiemann, Andreas - 2021
Pension taxation has large budgetary and distributional effects, in particular in the light of ageing societies and the importance of pension benefits in old-age income. This paper investigates the impact of taxing public and mandatory occupational old-age pensions in the EU, focusing on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593837
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Taxation of families and "families of taxation"? : inequality modification between family types across welfare states
Schechtl, Manuel - 2020 - This version: 22.07.2020
Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state’s tax system does not solely redistribute from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated differently due to (de-)familialization policies in the tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265932
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Biased forecasts to affect voting decisions? : the Brexit case
Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2019
uence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984037
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The three meaningful votes : voting on Brexit in the British House of Commons
Aidt, Toke; Grey, Felix; Savu, Alexandru - 2019
Why do politicians rebel and vote against the party line when high stakes bills come to the floor of the legislature? We leverage the three so-called Meaningful Votes that took place in the British House of Commons between January and March 2019 on the Withdrawal Agreement that the Conservative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064455
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On the weights of nations : assigning voting weights in a heterogeneous union
Barberà, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2004
Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602899
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How Brexit affects European Union power distribution
Kóczy, László Á. - 2016
exit does not require new negotiations as the success of a voting initiative only depends on the number and total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537470
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Eu transfers and euroscepticism : can't buy me love?
Borin, Alessandro; Macchi, Elisa; Mancini, Michele - 2018
This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of political preferences. We build a new dataset combining data from the European Social Survey, different data sources for political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868110