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Inequalities within couples: Market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007
explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291255
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Inequalities within couples : market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007
explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631564
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Inequalities within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007
explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600720
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Inequalities within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017391
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Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Levy, Horacio; Sutherland, Holly; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703832
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Do welfare state taxes and transfers reduce gender income inequality? : evidence from eight European countries
Avram, Silvia; Popova, Daria - 2020
We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … various welfare regime types. We quantify the extent to which taxes and transfers are able to close the gender gap in earnings …-age pensions, taxes and transfers - both contributory and means-tested - significantly reduce gender income inequality but cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226307
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Tax-benefit systems, income distribution and work incentives in the European Union
Jara, H. Xavier; Tumino, Alberto - 2013
In this paper we study the impact of tax-benefit systems on income inequality and work incentives across the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU). Using EUROMOD, the EU-wide taxbenefit microsimulation model, we disentangle the role of taxes, benefits and social insurance contributions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738946
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Income redistribution in the European Union
Avram, Silvia; Levy, Horacio; Sutherland, Holly - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 22, pp. 1-29
We explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. As well as describing redistributive effects in aggregate, we assess and compare the effectiveness of eight individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533131
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Income redistribution in the European Union
Avram, Silvia; Levy, Horacio; Sutherland, Holly - 2014
The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their redistributive effects using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. As well as describing redistributive effects in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348247
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Comparing redistributive efficiency of tax-benefit systems in Europe
Mantovani, Daniela - 2018
In empirical analysis, the Kakwani index is the most frequently used indicator for comparing progressivity across countries and over time. The Kakwani is often assumed to measure to what extent a policy design is targeted to the poor. It has, however, a major drawback: it is not defined for net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865012