Since January 2021, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) is fully responsible for the maintenance and development of the EUROMOD model and software. This task is carried out jointly with Eurostat (ESTAT) for what concerns the preparation of the EUROMOD input datasets, and in close collaboration with...

Many countries implemented wage compensation measures during the COVID-19 crisis to alleviate income losses and avoid employment reductions. We focus on the gender dimension of incomes in Estonia, which has been grappling with the highest gender wage gap in Europe, and investigate whether the...

The Barcelona targets on childcare help increase women's labour-market participation and close the gender employment gap by enhancing the provision of early childhood education and care. To contribute to the debate on the revision of the targets, this paper estimates the impact on labour par-...

This paper analyses the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on household disposable income and household demand in the European Union (EU), making use of the EU microsimulation model EUROMOD and nowcasting techniques. We show evidence of heterogeneity in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the...

This country report provides an overview of the Austrian EUROMOD country and basic information on the Austrian tax-benefit system in 2020-2023. It describes the most important policies and policy changes. The report explains, how these policies are reflected in the model and where modelling...