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  1. Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries: impact on public finance and household incomes

    Olga Cantó Sánchez, Francesco Figari, Carlo Fiorio, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Taxation
    11. Covid 19

  2. Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain

    Adrián Hernández, Fidel Picos, and Sara Riscado

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Households
    5. Economics
    6. Poverty
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Welfare Benefits
    10. Income Dynamics
    11. Microsimulation

  3. Combining microsimulation and optimization to identify optimal flexible tax-transfer rules

    Ugo Colombino and Nizamul Islam

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation

  4. Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?

    Mike Brewer and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Health
    10. Microsimulation
    11. Taxation
    12. Covid 19

  5. The Covid-19 crisis response helps the poor: the distributional and budgetary consequences of the UK lock-down

    Patryk Bronka, Diego Collado, and Matteo Richiardi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Household Economics
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Finance
    11. Covid 19

  6. Do welfare state taxes and transfers reduce gender income inequality? Evidence from eight European countries

    Silvia Avram and Daria Popova

    1. Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Social Policy

  7. Evaluation of a Recovery Basic Income, and of a sustainable revenue neutral Citizen’s Basic Income, with an appendix relating to different Universal Credit roll-out scenarios

    Malcolm Torry

    1. Economics
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Health
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Covid 19

  8. Welfare resilience in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy

    Francesco Figari and Carlo V. Fiorio

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Health
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation
    9. Covid 19

  9. The potential costs and distributional effect of Covid-19 related unemployment in Ireland

    Keelan Beirne, Karina Doorley, Mark Regan, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Unemployment
    3. Economics
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Wages And Earnings
    7. Health
    8. Microsimulation
    9. Finance
    10. Covid 19

  10. Singling out the truly needy: the role of asset testing in European minimum income schemes

    Sarah Marchal, Sarah Kuypers, Ive Marx, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  11. The fiscal and equity impact of social tax expenditures in the EU

    Salvador Barrios, Flavia Coda Moscarola, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Economic Policy

  12. Work incentives at the extensive and intensive margin in Europe: the role of taxes, benefits and population characteristics

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Katrin Gasior, and Mattia Makovec

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  13. Second earners and in-work poverty in the EU

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Daria Popova

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  14. Indexing out of poverty? Fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective

    Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  15. Income protection of atypical workers in the event of unemployment in Europe

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Alberto Tumino

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  16. Europe through the crisis: discretionary policy changes and automatic stabilisers

    Alari Paulus and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation

  17. Piecemeal modelling of the effects of joint direct and indirect tax reforms

    Bart Capéau, André Decoster, Sebastiaan Maes, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  18. The use of hypothetical household data for policy learning – EUROMOD HHoT baseline indicators

    Katrin Gasior and Pasquale Recchia

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Social Policy

  19. Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective: a cross-country comparison

    Sarah Kuypers, Francesco Figari, and Gerlinde Verbist

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Savings And Assets
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  20. Financial work incentives and the longterm unemployed: the case of Belgium

    Diego Collado

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation
    7. Finance

  21. The case for NIT+FT in Europe. An empirical optimal taxation exercise

    Nizamul Islam and Ugo Colombino

    1. Labour Market
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  22. Welfare analysis and redistributive policies

    Olivier Bargain

    1. Economics
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  23. The impact of in-work benefits on female labor supply and income distribution in Spain

    Luis Ayala and Milagros Paniagua

    1. Labour Market
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  24. Nowcasting: timely indicators for monitoring risk of poverty in 2014-2016

    Katrin Gasior and Olga Rastrigina

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  25. Improving poverty reduction in Europe: what works best where?

    Chrysa Leventi, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation

  26. Decomposition of changes in the EU income distribution in 2007-2011

    Alari Paulus and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Household Economics
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation

  27. The impact of in-work benefits on employment and poverty

    Dieter Vandelannoote and Gerlinde Verbist

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation

  28. The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives

    Diego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Social Policy

  29. Measuring income redistribution: beyond the proportionality standard

    Ivica Urban

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  30. The joint decision of female labour supply and childcare in Italy under costs and availability constraints

    Francesco Figari and Edlira Narazani

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation
    8. Finance
    9. Caregiving

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