Strong family networks in Southern Europe are often credited with protecting people from poverty in circumstances where both employment and social benefits are limited. However it may well be that the economies frequently described as 'familial' are more strongly patriarchal than other market...

The Lisbon summit of the European Council in March 2000 declared the number of people living in poverty and social exclusion in the European Union to be unacceptable, and called for steps to tackle the issue, beginning with the setting of targets for particular indicators. The targets suggested...

Using the notion of the poverty regime as a heuristic device, this paper examines the safety nets of several members of the European Union and three candidate countries: Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic,...

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...

This paper aims at examining the impact of different transfers on the income distribution in European countries. Therefore an empirical analysis using generalized Lorenz curve comparisons is carried out. The obtained results are investigated by relating them to a classification of European...

This paper measures the net redistributive impact of the EU budget. It finds that for every € 1,000 difference in income per capita across countries, € 9 is offset by lower contributions to the budget and € 3 is offset by higher expenditures by the budget. The overall equalising effect is...

[Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Ergebnisse] Im Zuge der Bundestagswahl 2013 gab es eine breite öffentliche Diskussion um die Wiedereinführung der 1996 letztmals erhobenen Vermögensteuer in Deutschland. Die damalige Diskussion wurde im Jahr 2013 in einer Studie des ZEW für die Stiftung...

Unter dem Titel 'Von der Transformation zur europäischen Integration: Wachstumsfaktor Bildung besser nutzen' hat das Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) gemeinsam mit Partnern aus Forschungseinrichtungen und Universitäten in Deutschland am 22. Februar 2017...

We analyze the determinants of average individual inflation uncertainty and disagreement based on data from the European Central Bank's Survey of Professional Forecasters. We empirically confirm the implication from a theoretical decomposition of inflation uncertainty that disagreement is an...