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Estonia. It makes use of microsimulation modelling approach and applies the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to quantify the first … both poverty and inequality reducing. Alternative policy scenarios indicate that, among the considered options, increasing … incentives at low and middle-income levels together with modest reductions in poverty and inequality. This Working Paper relates …
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Under the Universal Credit reform, the main means-tested benefits except the Council Tax Benefit will be pooled into one single benefit with one single taper rate. The reform will give people better incentives to work, reduce complexity and contribute to reducing poverty. The reform could reduce...
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This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...
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country with among the highest levels of income inequality in the OECD and a pattern of inequality that appears to be moving …
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reform using the microsimulation model EUROMOD. Second, we estimate labour supply impacts of the reform based on a structural … the labour supply elasticities. We show that the child tax credit reform in Austria reduces inequality, lowers the poverty …
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the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that the new guaranteed minimum income scheme introduced in 2019 … revenues and increase inequality, by reducing the progressivity of the personal tax system. A proposed reform package that …-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the …
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coverage rates and adequacy levels. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD together with microdata from the European …
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countries with a statutory national minimum wage based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological … suggest that minimum wage increases can significantly reduce in-work poverty, wage inequality and the gender pay gap, while …
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the Greek crisis on inequality and poverty in 2009-2014 using the micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Specifically, the paper … income surveys such as EU-SILC, income data usually become available with considerable delay. In this context, micro-simulation …-2014, a period for which survey data are not yet publicly available. The results indicate that inequality, as measured by most …
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impact, we find that the inequality-enhancing effect of indirect taxes is more than off-set by the inequality-reducing effect …
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