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  1. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce poverty

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  2. Shifting taxes away from labour enhances equity and fiscal efficiency

    Flavia Coda Moscarola, Ugo Colombino, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation

  3. Dynamic scoring of tax reforms in the European Union

    Salvador Barrios, Mathias Dolls, Anamaria Maftei, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation
    4. Economic Policy

  4. Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Marcelo Varela

    1. Insurance
    2. Households
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Household Economics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  5. The use of hypothetical household data for policy learning: comparative tax‒benefit indicators using EUROMOD HHoT

    Katrin Gasior and Pasquale Recchia

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

  6. 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

  7. The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe: the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies

    Daria Popova and Jekaterina Navicke

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation
    8. Social Stratification

  8. 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

  9. Fiscal vs. social welfare: support for affordable housing in seven EU countries

    Francesco Figari, Katarina Hollan, Manos Matsaganis, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Public Policy
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Housing Market

  10. 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

  11. Who benefits from the ‘hidden welfare state’? The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure in six countries

    Silvia Avram

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

  12. Female labour force projections using microsimulation for six EU countries

    Ross Richardson, Lia Pacelli, Ambra Poggi, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Microsimulation

  13. Editorial

    Matteo Richiardi

    1. Economics
    2. Microsimulation

  14. Removing homeownership bias in taxation: the distributional effects of including net imputed rent in taxable income

    Francesco Figari, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation
    4. Housing Market

  15. Learning from your neighbor: tax-benefit systems swaps in Latin America

    Olivier Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, and David Rodriguez

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

  16. Putting measures of individual well-being to use for ex-ante policy evaluation

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Erik Schokkaert

    1. Economics
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being
    4. Microsimulation

  17. Reducing poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform and the minimum wage: the UK as a case-study

    Anthony B. Atkinson, Chrysa Leventi, Brian Nolan, et al.

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

  18. Simulation of an application of the Hartz-IV reform in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katarina Hollan, and Katrin Gasior

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation

  19. Fiscal sustainability and demographic change: a micro-approach for 27 EU countries

    Mathias Dolls, Karina Doorley, Alari Paulus, et al.

    1. Pensions
    2. Demography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Economics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Finance

  20. The design of fiscal consolidation measures in the European Union: distributional effects and implications for macroeconomic recovery

    Francesco Figari, Alari Paulus, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Income Dynamics
    2. Household Economics
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Economic Policy

  21. Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria

    Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation

  22. Interactions between policy effects, population characteristics and the tax-benefit system: an illustration using child poverty and child related policies in Romania and the Czech Republic

    Silvia Avram and Eva Militaru

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

  23. Distributional impacts of cash allowances for children: a microsimulation analysis for Russia and Europe

    Daria Popova

    1. Young People
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation

  24. Effects of changes in tax-transfer system on households income distribution in Bulgaria: simulation analysis using EUROMOD for 2011-2015

    Ekaterina Tosheva, Iva Valentinova Tasseva, Dragomir Draganov, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Economic Policy

  25. The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey: a new underlying database for EUROMOD

    Sarah Kuypers, Francesco Figari, and Gerlinde Verbist

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

  26. Fiscal consolidation policies in the context of Italy’s two recessions

    Francesco Figari and Carlo V. Fiorio

    1. Microsimulation
    2. Economic Policy

  27. The distributional effects of taxes and transfers under alternative income concepts: the importance of three ‘I’s

    Francesco Figari and Alari Paulus

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

  28. From housewives to independent earners: how the tax system can help women to work in a context of strong familialism

    Francesco Figari

    1. Labour Market
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  29. Nowcasting indicators of poverty risk in the European Union: a microsimulation approach

    Jekaterina Navicke, Olga Rastrigina, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Poverty
    2. Microsimulation

  30. The redistributive effect and progressivity of taxes revisited: an international comparison across the European Union

    Gerlinde Verbist and Francesco Figari

    1. Microsimulation
    2. Taxation
    3. International Economic Relations

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