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  1. Developing an integrated microsimulation model for the impact of fiscal policies on child health in Europe: the example of childhood obesity in Italy

    Davide Rasella, Lorenzo Richiardi, Nicolai Brachowicz, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Child Development
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Health
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Economic Policy

  2. The effect of local housing allowance reductions on overcrowding in the private rented sector in England

    Amy Clair

    1. Living Standards
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Housing Market

  3. Modelling Universal Basic Income using UKMOD

    Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit, and Sara Reis

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

  4. A microsimulation analysis of the distributional impact over the three waves of the COVID-19 crisis in Ireland

    Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon, Iryna Kyzyma, et al.

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

  5. 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

  6. The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax-benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Lourdes Montesdeoca, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Covid 19

  7. Impacts of long-standing illness and chronic illness on working hours and household income in a longitudinal UK study

    Cara L. Booker, Leanne Andrews, Gillian Green, et al.

    1. Disability
    2. Demography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Caregiving

  8. The escalation of domestic violence during the Covid-19 lockdown

    Sonia Bhalotra

    1. Crime And Justice
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Health
    6. Covid 19

  9. But what about that nice house you own? The impact of asset tests in minimum income schemes in Europe: an empirical exploration

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

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

  10. 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

  11. Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households
    4. Poverty
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Health

  12. Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households
    4. Poverty
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Health

  13. Hours and pay insecurity in the UK labour market

    Silvia Avram

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Wages And Earnings

  14. Access to social protection by immigrants, emigrants and resident nationals in the Russian Federation

    Daria Popova

    1. Insurance
    2. Area Effects
    3. Pensions
    4. Migration
    5. Labour Market
    6. Unemployment
    7. Public Policy
    8. Welfare Benefits
    9. Income Dynamics
    10. Health

  15. Protect BAME people hit financially by Covid, says UK thinktank

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Survey Methodology
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Savings And Assets
    10. Wages And Earnings
    11. Household Economics
    12. Debt: Indebtedness
    13. Ethnic Groups
    14. Health
    15. Finance
    16. Social Stratification
    17. Covid 19

  16. UKMOD/EUROMOD country report

    Sara Reis and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation

  17. Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non-take-up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katrin Gasior, Tamara Premrov, et al.

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

  18. Zero-hours contracts: flexibility or insecurity? Experimental evidence from a low income population

    Silvia Avram

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Economics
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Wages And Earnings

  19. All together now? The impacts of the Government’s coronavirus income support schemes across the age distribution

    Mike Brewer and Karl Handscomb

    1. Labour Market
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Household Economics
    7. Health
    8. Economic Policy
    9. Covid 19

  20. Atypical work and unemployment protection in Europe

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Alberto Tumino

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Poverty
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Household Economics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  21. Unemployment rate: how many people are out of work?

    Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner, and Karl Handscomb

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  22. 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

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

    Ugo Colombino and Nizamul Islam

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation

  24. A method for decomposing the impact of reforms on the long-run income distribution, with an application to universal credit

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Taxation
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Surveys

  25. The truth will out: understanding labour market statistics during the coronavirus crisis

    Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner, and Karl Handscomb

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Welfare resilience in the first month of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

    Francesco Figari and Carlo Fiorio

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

  30. The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes

    Mike Brewer and Laura Gardiner

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

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