approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit …

-Saxon countries. For Eastern Europe, our results are less definite. Looking at the impact of the tax and benefit schemes in the EU, it …

While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising … grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old … Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to the labor markets. Visceral fear rendered more than one in …

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …

or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes …