family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain … and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …

?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. We then simulate … in Italy and Portugal universal policies appear to be too costly in terms of implied top marginal tax rates and in terms …

countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …

the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is …