The homelessness monitor: England 2017

[…] recent economic and policy developments in England. It considers both the consequences of the post-2007 economic and housing market recession, and the subsequent recovery, and also the impact of policy changes. This sixth annual report updates our account of how homelessness stands in England in 2017, or as close to 2017 as data availability […]

The impact of in-work benefits on employment and poverty

This article studies the impact of design characteristics of in-work benefits on employment and poverty in an international comparative setting, taking account of both first and second order labour supply effects. We use the micro-simulation model EUROMOD, which has been enriched with a discrete labour supply model. The analysis is performed for four EU-member […]

Progression and retention in the labour market: what have we learned from IWC and ERA?

[…] much more effective than encouraging part-time work. Some lone parents offered incentives to work part-time cut their hours in response. Encouraging part-time work had a very small impact on retention. Encouraging full-time work had a much larger impact, although we cannot discount that some of this was due to other aspects of the ERA […]

Inequality and poverty across generations in the European Union

[…] lower youth incomes and greater risk of youth poverty. Social protection systems are ill-equipped to address rising youth poverty. They shield the elderly’s real incomes from the impact of the crisis but offer only limited assistance to young unemployed individuals. Moreover, the latest fiscal consolidation efforts were more focused on programs helping the working […]

The return to work and how it is taxed: a dynamic perspective

[…] current period return. We do this by developing two new summary statistics – one that measures the dynamic payoff to work and the other that measures the impact of personal taxes and transfers on the dynamic payoff to work – and implement these using simulated data from a sophisticated dynamic model of education and […]

Size and distributional pattern of pension-related tax expenditures in European countries

[…] However, tax expenditures—defined as deviations from an agreed benchmark tax system— are widely used in EU Member States, and little is known about their fiscal and distributional impact. This paper quantifies the fiscal and distributional impact of tax expenditures related to public and private contributory pension schemes, affecting both contributions and pension benefits, in […]

Which way the pendulum swings? Equity and efficiency of 26 years of tax-benefit reforms in Belgium

[…] work incentives on the other. In this paper we assess changes in tax-benefit policies over the full course of 1992-2018 along three dimensions: equity, efficiency and budgetary impact. We construct counterfactual distributions of disposable incomes under alternative tax benefit systems by means of the arithmetic microsimulation model EUROMOD. We summarize distributional effects of changes […]

The impact of bullying victimisation on mental wellbeing

We investigate the impact of nine types of adolescent (verbal, physical, indirect) school/domestic bullying on life satisfaction, and two mental health outcomes (emotional symptoms and hyperactivity/inattention) using the Understanding Society dataset during 2009-13. Bullying significantly increases hyperactive, inattentive and emotional symptoms and reduces life satisfaction. Non-domestic bullying has a stronger adverse impact on all […]