[…] welfare for low income families: their wider family, specifically the support from the bank of mum and dad. The report examines in detail the prevalence, nature and impact of intergenerational transfers in low income families. Such support generally generates positive financial and emotional benefits for both donors and recipients. So new, imaginative policies are […]

[…] Thus, countries with more inclusive social insurance schemes tend to have more generous universal poverty relief and fewer categorical means-tested benefits. Previous poor relief experiences may also impact on the blueprint of the current social assistance program. Building on the case of Hungary, it may be hypothesized that a tradition of local charities favours […]

[…] with some even struggling to pay bills – let alone having money left over to save. But new analysis from NatCen Social Research has shown that the recession has had less impact on the savings behaviour of the richest households – and if anything has enabled many of them to save even more than before.

[…] with their work, even though they do not earn less or have less secure contracts. We test several possible explanations of why a father’s working situation would impact on their children’s labour market experiences. We find no evidence that the young adults suffered psychological scarring in their youth, nor that they are at a […]

This paper documents the integration of microsimulation tools for direct taxation, indirect taxation, and social benefits in the context of the European tax and benefit simulator, EUROMOD. Integration has been developed parallely for the two countries, Belgium and Germany. The paper at hand documents the process and presents simulation results for the case of Germany. […]

[…] cost of public disability support. Economists often use the idea of a “compensating variation” (CV) as a way of measuring intangibles in money terms, to allow the impact of policy to be compared with its financial cost. For a disabled individual, the CV is defined as the amount of additional income he or she […]

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and […]