As unemployment rises across the European Union (EU) it is important to understand the extent to which the incomes of the new unemployed are protected by tax-benefit systems and to assess the cost pressures on governments. This paper uses the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to explore these issues,...

[fre] Les modèles statiques de microsimulation en Europe dans les années 90 . Les modèles de microsimulation sont désormais couramment utilisés comme moyen d'analyse des politiques économiques et sociales. Ils ont de nombreux domaines d'application, depuis des modèles essentiellement...

International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly provided in-kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal analysis in the European Union, EUROMOD, is used to...

In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under...

This paper takes the form of advice given to a hypothetical government on the construction of a tax-benefit model. The importance of the quality of the data and the care taken in its adjustment is emphasised . The choice of the unit of analysis, the requirements of the income data, methods of...

Microsimulation models are commonly used to examine the distributional impact of reforms of the means-tested benefit system. Take-up behaviour is related to the level of entitlement, so reform may induce changes in take-up. We develop a stochastic simulation method and apply it to a probit model...

This study analyses the financial well-being of elderly people across Europe. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, which facilitates the identification of minimum pension schemes in a comparable way across countries, we show the extent to which these schemes serve to reduce the risk...