Statistics from the new version of EUROMOD, the tax-benefit micro-simulation model for the European Union, are now available for downloading.
EUROMOD enables researchers and policy analysts to calculate, in a comparable manner, the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes and work incentives for the population of each country and for the EU as a whole. As well as calculating the effects of actual policies it is also used to evaluate the effects of tax-benefit policy reforms and other changes on poverty, inequality, incentives and government budgets.
EUROMOD statistics on the Distribution and Decomposition of Disposable Income provide estimates of income components (taxes and benefits) by household income decile group as well as inequality and poverty indicators before and after taxes and benefits.
The current release covers 9 countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania and the United Kingdom) and tax-benefit systems for 2006 to 2009.