on being in employment. This paper surveys recent tax-benefit reforms in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, The UK, France … and Belgium, focusing in particular on the reforms carried out in the latter. The potential labor supply effect of the … in taxes and social security contributions, as well as benefits conditioned on employment are effective means to promote …

automatically granted a more generous old-age pension benefits replacement rate, called the household replacement rate. Following a … adequacy measures. Specifically, we test whether the household replacement rate entails a work (dis)incentive mechanism … promoting (harming) pension sustainability and furthermore, we analyse the role of the household replacement rate in old …

luxury goods. Moreover, uncertainty reduces household propensity to invest in mutual funds. These results support the notion … that macroeconomic uncertainty can impact household decisions and have large negative effects on economic outcomes. …