[…] recommendations often call for streamlining tax expenditures, in practice policy measures are often difficult to design in particular given the difficulty in measuring the fiscal and equity impact of tax expenditures. This paper quantifies the fiscal and equity effects of tax expenditures in 27 European countries making use of EUROMOD, the EU-wide microsimulation model. […]
[…] in foreign born workers, whereas regions like the North east of England, Wales and Scotland gained popularity between 2005 and 2016. This thesis aims at understanding the impact of immigration on UK regional wages between 1991 and 2016. The analysis presented in this thesis is split by the pre-and post-recession periods using the BHPS […]
[…] of potential stressors, nor examine whether recent changes in those stressors have positively or negatively impacted on common mental disorders. Furthermore, it is unclear whether the stressful impact of the lockdown on mental health has accumulated over time or whether people have adapted to the new conditions of lockdown. This study examines whether there […]
The aim of the paper is to study the impact of partnership instability and fertility on the housing market. While there are aggregate ‘compositional effects’ of family formation and dissolution events on the housing market, working through the number and size distribution of households, the paper focuses on the impact of such events on […]
The aim of the paper is to study the impact of partnership instability and fertility on the housing market. While there are aggregate ‘compositional effects’ of family formation and dissolution events on the housing market, working through the number and size distribution of households, the paper focuses on the impact of such events on […]
We use survey data on cohorts of high school graduates observed before and after the Italian reform of tertiary education implementing the ‘Bologna process’ to estimate the impact of the reform on the decision to go to college. We find that individuals leaving high school after the reform have a probability of going to […]
[…] that have impacted on many people’s lives and financial security. In the absence of any known cures or preventative vaccines, governments quickly implemented policies to minimize its impact. In particular, public health policies were rolled out which focused on containing the spread of the virus but these measures in turn had a detrimental impact […]
This paper assesses the impact on household incomes of the COVID-19 pandemic and governments’ policy responses in April 2020 in four large and severely hit European countries: Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK. We provide comparative evidence on the level of relative and absolute welfare resilience at the onset of the pandemic, by creating […]
Assesses whether wellbeing measures can be used to assess the impact of transport projects. This report focuses on how wellbeing-based evidence could be applied in appraisal within the transport analysis guidance (TAG). It also details how wellbeing can have an impact on transport projects and policies. It focuses on the following themes: 1) a […]