We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect the incomes of men and women in different household types. Using microsimulation and intra-household income splitting rules, we measure the differences in the level and composition of individual disposable incomes of men and women in eight EU countries covering various welfare regime types. We verify whether countries that usually score high on de-familialization indices have on average lower gender gaps in income and vice-versa. We then quantify the extent to which taxes and transfers are able to close the gender gap in earnings, as well as which policy instruments contribute most to reducing the gap in the eight countries we study. We find that while taxes and social insurance contributions consistently close the gender income gap, the effect of transfers is highly dependent on the characteristics of household women live in.
Presented by:
Daria Popova, ISER
Date & time:
June 20, 2018 12:00 pm - June 20, 2018 1:00 pm
Venue:
2N2.4.16 (ISER Large Seminar Room)
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