public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …

countries included in the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). In two thirds of all international comparisons of tax progression, the … book extends uniform measures to progression comparisons of countries with different income distributions. Tax progression …