We apply microsimulation techniques to estimate the first-order effects of tax-benefit policy
changes since the beginning of the financial and economic crisis in 2008. Using the EU tax …

We summarise and decompose changes in the household disposable income distribution in
2007-2011 across 27 EU countries to study the impact of the Great Recession on household …

The mission of the Economic and Social Research Institute is to advance evidencebased
policymaking that supports economic sustainability and social progress in Ireland. ESRI …

Fiscal incidence analysis is the most widely used methodology to assess the distributional
effects of fiscal policies. However, despite 40 years of use and refinement, it still lacks. A …

While the five countries cannot fully represent a global scale, they portray wideranging
diversity. They are in three regions: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Sub …

The Czech Republic is home to one of the more equal societies in terms of household
disposable income, and has the lowest level of relative poverty in Europe. This study shows …

We examine the consequences of changes in work incentives in Poland between 2005 and
2011 resulting from a complex tax and benefit reform package and substantial real wage …

Background The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) was contracted
to conduct three evidence reviews on behalf of the DG for Employment, Social Affairs and …

In 2017, the potential duration of the Finnish earnings-related unemployment benefit was cut
from 500 to 400 days (or 400 to 300 working days). We apply a microsimulation method to …

The distributional impact of policy changes is usually considered in terms of equivalised
household income, assuming that each individual within the household is being affected in …